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November the Korean Peninsula After General MacArthur ignores Maos warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea his First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the Toktong Pass a narrow gorge that will need to be held open at all costs The mission is handed to Captain William Barber and the Marines of Fox Company a courageous but undermanned unit of the First Marines Barber and his men climb seven miles of frozen terrain to a rocky promontory overlooking the pass where they will endure four days and five nights of nearly continuous Chinese attempts to take Fox Hill Amid the relentless violence three-quarters of Foxs Marines are killed wounded or captured Just when it looks like they will be overrun Lt Colonel Raymond Davis a fearless Marine officer who is fighting south from Chosin volunteers to lead a daring mission that will seek to cut a hole in the Chinese lines and relieve the men of Fox This is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism in the face of impossible odds.
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Men's Health Contributing Editor and Military Correspondent Bob Drury has been nominated for three National Magazine Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. He has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and Darfur among other sites. He is also the author, co-author, or editor of nine nonfiction books, including the New York Times bestselling HALSEY'S TYPHOON, LAST MEN OUT, and THE LAST STAND OF FOX COMPANY, the recipient of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's 2010 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for nonfiction. His Kindle Single, SIGNATURE WOUND, is available from Amazon, and his latest book, THE HEART OF EVERYTHING THAT IS -- also a New York Times bestseller in hardcover -- was released in paperback by Simon & Schuster Publishing in September, 2014.
