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 first chapter. All in all, however, I consider The Marines of Autumn a good read, especially if one has an interest in the Korean War.