Lieutenant General Edward A. Craig: Warrior Six: Combat Leader in World War II and Korea
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
Lieutenant General Edward A. Craig: Warrior Six: Combat Leader in World War II and Korea

by Richard D. Camp

Finalist for NOUS' 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature

Marine historian Dick Camp knew Craig personally and has woven Craig’s own account of his service into context. Craig’s recollections are more than recitations of facts, his account of leading in World War II provides the perspective of a combat leader balancing the mission objectives with responsibility for the men he leads. His account of fighting during the Korean War section provides insight into how unprepared the United States was and how a determined, well-led Marine brigade was able to stop the North Korean advance and prevent them from overrunning South Korea.

Ordering Info: Casemate

Publisher: Casemate Publishers, 2023

On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle

by Hampton Sides

Winner of NOUS' 2019 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature

On Desperate Sides tells the story of one of the most harrowing clashes in American history, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, during which Mao’s numerically superior armies surrounded and tried to destroy the First Marine Division in the frozen mountain wilds of North Korea. In this deeply researched work of literary non-fiction, bestselling historian Hampton Sides offers a gripping chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism performed by the beleaguered Marines, who were called upon to do the impossible in some of the most unforgiving terrain on earth.

Ordering Info: Amazon

Publisher: Doubleday, 2018

The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir

by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Finalist for NOUS' 2017 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature

An account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. 

Based on first-person interviews from surviving veterans who came to be known as the “Frozen Chosen,” this is the incredible story of heroism and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds, as a handful of Marines fought desperately against wave after wave of Chinese forces. Sometimes forced into desperate hand-to-hand fighting in intense cold, cut off from reinforcements, and with dwindling supplies and ammunition, the fighting retreat from Chosin marked one of the darkest moments for Western forces in Korea, it but would go on to resonate with generations of Marines as a symbol of the Marine Corps' dogged determination, fighting skill, and never-say-die attitude on the battlefield.

Ordering Info: Amazon

Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2016

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