The last stand of Fox Company
Subtitle: a true story of U.S. Marines in combat
By: Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
Contributors: Clavin, Thomas.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780871139931
Subjects: United States. -- Marine Corps. -- Regiment, 5th. -- Battalion, 2nd. -- F Company; United States. -- Marine Corps -- Officers -- Biography; United States. -- Marine Corps. -- Marines, 1st -- History -- 20th century; Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Regimental histories -- United States; Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Campaigns -- Korea (North) -- Changjin Reservoir; Marines -- United States -- Biography; Changjin Reservoir (Korea) -- History, Military -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: During the Korean War, 234 heroic marines from Fox Company, First Division, held off a force of 10,000 Chinese soldiers in subzero weather to secure the Toktong Pass. This is their story.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-334) and index.
Table of contents: title: The hill; title: The attack; title: The siege; title: "We will hold"; title: The ridgerunners; title: Postscript 2008.