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“A MUST READ . . . This book [is] one of the vital best on that war in Korea. . . . A good looking account of common, decent men in desperate action.”
–Leatherneck
During the early, uncertain days of the Korean War, World War II veteran and company lieutenant Joe Owen saw firsthand how the rapidly assembled mix of a few two hundred regulars and raw reservists hardened into a great Marine rifle company referred to as Baker-One-Seven.
As comrades fell wounded and dead around them at the frozen slopes above Korea’s infamous Chosin Reservoir, Baker-One-Seven’s Marines triumphed against the relentless human-wave assaults of Chinese regulars and took part within the breakout that destroyed six to eight divisions of Chinese regulars. COLDER THAN HELL paints a vivid, frightening portrait of one of the horrific infantry battles ever waged.
“Thoroughly gripping . . . The Chosin action is justly {referred to as|called} epical; Lieutenant Owen tells the tale of the men who made it so.”
–Booklist