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Talk about hell on Earth.
This is by far the best book I have read on the Korean War and is definitely in my personal top five favorite war books: Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950
The book gives a historical account of Chosin Reservoir Campaign in which 12000 Marines + personnel broke out of an encirclement by some odd 60 000 Chinese troops.
It goes into detail and provides first person accounts of the campaign by different Marines as well as an overview of the whole campaign.
If you're a military history buff, you need to read this book.
I won't give away how awesome the book is, but in one instance it gives an account of a Marine who, having expended all his ammunition cutting down a wave of Chinese, picks up an M1 Garand w/ fixed bayonet and hurls it into the chest of a final enemy soldier who was about to over run his foxhole. I couldn't put the book down after that.
It amazes me that many people do not even realize that the Chinese and the Americans actually killed each other in combat in the 20th century. The Korean War is the most overlooked conflict in recent times.
This is an amazing book about the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir. God, what a hard battle that was.