November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur
ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North
Korea, his ten thousand First Division marines find themselves
surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by one hundred thousand
Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for
survival is to fight their way south through the Toktong Pass, a
narrow gorge in the Nangnim Mountains. This choke point will need
to be held open at all costs. The mission is handed to Captain
William Barber and the 236 men of Fox Company, a courageous but
undermanned unit of the Seventh Marine Regiment. Barber and his men
are ordered to 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 Fox's marines
are killed, wounded, or captured. Just when it looks like the
outfit will be overrun, Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Davis, a
fearless marine officer who is fighting south from the Chosin,
volunteers to lead a daring mission that will seek to cut a hole in
the Chinese lines and relieve the men of Fox Company. The Last
Stand of Fox Company is a fast-paced and gripping account of
heroism and self-sacrifice in the face of impossible odds. The
authors have conducted dozens of first-hand interviews with the
battle's survivors, and they narrate the story with the immediacy
of classic accounts of a single battle like Guadalcanal Diary, Pork
Chop Hill, and Black Hawk Down.
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