The Coldest War (eBook, ePUB)
A Memoir of Korea
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The author and Korean War veteran vividly describes his time on the frontlines in this military memoir: "war reporting at its best . . . reads like a novel" (Walter Cronkite).In 1947, seeking to avoid the draft, nineteen-year-old Jim Brady volunteered for a Marine Corps program that made him a lieutenant in the reserves on the day he graduated college. He didn't expect to be sent overseas three years later to lead a rifle platoon against a deadly enemy. But in Korea, he received a rapid education in the realities of war and the pressures of command.In The Coldest War, Brady vividly describes ...
The author and Korean War veteran vividly describes his time on the frontlines in this military memoir: "war reporting at its best . . . reads like a novel" (Walter Cronkite).
In 1947, seeking to avoid the draft, nineteen-year-old Jim Brady volunteered for a Marine Corps program that made him a lieutenant in the reserves on the day he graduated college. He didn't expect to be sent overseas three years later to lead a rifle platoon against a deadly enemy. But in Korea, he received a rapid education in the realities of war and the pressures of command.
In The Coldest War, Brady vividly describes the miasma of trench warfare; how death comes in fits and starts as artillery from both sides seeks out men in their bunkers; and how constant alertness is crucial for survival, while brutal cold and a seductive silence can lull soldiers into a fatal stupor.
The Korean War affected the lives of all Americans, yet is little known about this "Forgotten War." Here is the inside story as it deserves to be told.
In 1947, seeking to avoid the draft, nineteen-year-old Jim Brady volunteered for a Marine Corps program that made him a lieutenant in the reserves on the day he graduated college. He didn't expect to be sent overseas three years later to lead a rifle platoon against a deadly enemy. But in Korea, he received a rapid education in the realities of war and the pressures of command.
In The Coldest War, Brady vividly describes the miasma of trench warfare; how death comes in fits and starts as artillery from both sides seeks out men in their bunkers; and how constant alertness is crucial for survival, while brutal cold and a seductive silence can lull soldiers into a fatal stupor.
The Korean War affected the lives of all Americans, yet is little known about this "Forgotten War." Here is the inside story as it deserves to be told.
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