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Trapped, outnumbered, freezing: Marines fight impossible odds and emerge legends.

The Frozen Chosen

The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir

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    392 pages

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    1 November 2017

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Summary

Based on unpublished first-hand accounts of the battle, this is a dramatic retelling of the desperate Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, where the heavily outnumbered US 1st Marine Division held off vastly superior Chinese forces before successfully withdrawing in good order.

In November 1950 The US 1st Marine Division was trapped in the Chosin Reservoir following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, the ensuing …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472824882
ISBN-10:1472824881
Author:Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Osprey Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:392
Release Date:1 November 2017
Weight:300g
Dimensions:28mm x 130mm x 196mm
A-Format
The Frozen Chosen by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver - ISBN: 9781472824882
130 × 196 mm
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A4
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About The Author

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years. He is a regular contributor to Flight Journal magazine. He has had a lifelong interest in the Korean War and this work is the product of 25 years of research. He is the author of ACE 115: Aces of the 78th Fighter Group and ACE 125: F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat Aces of VF-2, as well as Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15 and The Bridgebusters: The True Story of the Catch-22 Bomb Group. During his 30 years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, he wrote the cult classic The Terror Within and worked as a supervising producer on a number of TV and cable series. He served in the US Navy in Vietnam.

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