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The Marines of Autumn
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James Brady
War has been the inspiration of such great novels as The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms, and daring feats of courage and tragic mistakes have been the foundation for such classic works. Now, for the first time ever, the Korean War has a novel that captures that courage and sacrifice.
When Captain Thomas Verity, USMC, is called back to action, he must leav...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
May 15th 2001
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published 2000)
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There are few books on the Korean war, and even fewer fiction books on the subject. This novel did it's job in being an entertaining read for the most part. It did well in giving the reader the sense of desperation that must have been felt on the march out of the Chosin Reservoir.
I did have a couple of problems with this book. The foreshadowing that was present from almost the beginning of this book can really give away the story a perceptive reader. The ending of the book didn't fit with t...more
I did have a couple of problems with this book. The foreshadowing that was present from almost the beginning of this book can really give away the story a perceptive reader. The ending of the book didn't fit with t...more
This novel written by a man who was there tells the story of the disastrous Chosin Reservoir Campaign in Korea in the autumn and winter of 1950. The book was well written and gave a good grunt’s eye view of the United State’s Army’s blundering first months of the Korean War. In the end, however, I was disappointed by the novel’s heavy-handed tug at the reader’s heartstrings. The author ended the book exactly as I had cynically and pessimistically thought he would while reading the book’s firs...more
I never read a book like this. It was a gut wrenching story of our military and how they had to retreat when the Chinese crossed into North Korea by the thousands. The north Koreans had already been defeated and the Korean war was thought to be nearing the end. It was bitterly cold, 20 below and the weather was killing our men as well as the Chinese. Captain Verity had been drawn into this conflict because his understanding of the Chinese people having spent his childhood in China. This sto...more
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Even though this is a novel, it feels like it is an actual account of the men who took part in the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War.
A quick read about the Korean War, the forgotten war, of which I am ignorant. Since it is the 60th anniversary, I'm glad to have a little insight.
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I'm not usually into war novels (or movies), but this was very well written.
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FIC BRADY
I read Brady's, The Coldest War, and found him to be a very good non-fiction writer. I would tend to agree with the jacket cover that this book has the power of All Quiet on the Western From, although it doesn't have the potential for greatness that Remarke's book had (Remember that Korea is the "forgotten war". I think he provided a lot of insight into a big little war that we have all but forgotten about. Geez, how many people have to die to make a war important to us~!?
The book is great, besides being slow a majority of the time. For this reason alone, I gave it 3 stars. However, if I could, I would rate it 3.5, as the story itself is very good, and accurately portrays (to the best of my knowledge) the things soldiers had to endure during the Korean War.
The BEST Korea novel I've ever read![return][return]Captain Tom Verity is part of one of MacArthur's last forays into the mountains of Korea, where his eyes are opened to the horrors of the Korean War, a historical novel by the author of The Coldest War.
This is really the only book I have read on the Korean war, so I have nothing to compare it to, but it was a good book to read. It sometimes had reandom flash bakes that didn't really add anything to the story. I didn't really like the ending.
It was a bit slow at first but had a moving ending.
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James Winston Brady was an American celebrity columnist who created the Page Six gossip column in the New York Post and authored the In Step With column in Parade for nearly 25 years until his death. He also authored numerous books about his time serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War.
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