{"id":48737,"date":"2018-10-03T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=48737"},"modified":"2018-10-04T06:56:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:56:09","slug":"hampton-sides-signs-on-desperate-grounds-the-marines-at-the-reservoir-the-korean-wars-greatest-battle-at-square-books-in-oxford-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/hampton-sides-signs-on-desperate-grounds-the-marines-at-the-reservoir-the-korean-wars-greatest-battle-at-square-books-in-oxford-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampton Sides Signs “On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War\u2019s Greatest Battle” at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Signing is Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 5 pm.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Hampton Sides<\/strong>\u00a0is an award-winning editor of\u00a0Outside<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the author of the bestselling histories\u00a0In the Kingdom of Ice,\u00a0Hellhound on His Trail,\u00a0Blood and Thunder<\/em>,<\/strong> and\u00a0Ghost Soldiers<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

From a\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>bestselling author, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur<\/strong>, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman<\/strong> that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. <\/span><\/p>\n

As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. Led by the 13,000 men of the First Marine Division, the Americans moved deep into the snowy mountains of North Korea, toward the trap Mao had set for the vainglorious MacArthur at the Chosin Reservoir. <\/span><\/p>\n

What followed was one of the most heroic\u2014and harrowing\u2014operations in American military history. Faced with probable annihilation, and temperatures plunging to 20 degrees below zero, the surrounded, and hugely outnumbered, Marines fought through the enemy forces with ferocity, ingenuity, and nearly unimaginable courage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hampton Sides\u2019 superb account of this classic battle relies on years of archival research and interviews with scores of Marines and Koreans who survived the siege. While expertly chronicling the follies of the American leaders, this is an immediate, grunt\u2019s-eye view of history, enthralling in its narrative pace and powerful in its portrayal of what ordinary men are capable of in the most extreme circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hampton Sides has been hailed by critics as one of the best nonfiction writers of his generation. As the\u00a0Miami Herald<\/em>\u00a0wrote, \u201cSides has a novelist\u2019s eye for the propulsive elements that lend momentum and dramatic pace to the best nonfiction narratives.”\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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