The Marines of Autumn: A Novel of the Korean War

War has been the inspiration of such great novels as The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms and daring feats of courage and tragic mistakes have been the foundation for such classic works. Now for the first time ever the Korean War has a novel that captures that courage and sacrifice.. When Captain Thomas Verity USMC is called back to action he must leave his Georgetown home career and young daughter and rush to Korea to monitor Chinese radio transmissions. At first acting in an advisory role he is abruptly thrust into MacArthurs last daring and disastrous foray-the Chosin Reservoir campaign-and then its desperate retreat. . Time magazine at the time recounted the retreat this way: The running fight of the Marines...was a battle unparalleled in U.S. military history. It had some aspects of Bataan some of Anzio some of Dunkirk some of Valley Forge and some of the retreat of the 10000 as described in Xenophons Anabasis. . The Marines of Autumn is a stunning shattering novel of war illuminated only by courage determination and Marine Corps discipline. And by love: of soldier for soldier of men and their women and of a small girl in Georgetown whose father promised she would dance with him on the bridges of Paris. A child Captain Tom Verity fears he may never see again.. In The Marines of Autumn James Brady captures our imagination and shocks us into a new understanding of war.