Cold dark night
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Robert Olmstead
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781616200435
Subjects: Teenage boys; Life change events; Americans; Soldiers; Korean War, 1950-1953; Fiction
Description: When Henry Childs is threatened by his first love's father, he enlists in the Marines to escape.

Mercy's father disapproves of their love, so she and Henry flee to New Orleans to play out their passionate affair. When her father hunts them down and takes his daughter home, Henry enlists in the Marines and is thrown into a decisive moment of the Korean War-- the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservoir. Returning home scarred and haunted, he will meet far greater challenges.