The Run-Up to the Punch Bowl: A Memoir of the Korean War, 1951
John Nolan is Washington lawyer who served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. He led a rifle platoon on the 1st Marine Division and was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with Combat "V" and the Purple Heart  for actions in Korea. He was a law clerk at the Supreme Court and later, with James Donovan in New York, he negotiated the release of the Cuban prisoners captured after the landing at the Bay of Pigs. Nolan was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University in England in 1987 and 1992. He and his wife Joan live in the outskirts of Washington, D.C.