The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950; following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century; it is considered by the United States Marine Corps to be “the Corps' finest hour.†Fourteen Medals of Honor; a record for any American battle; and eighty-five Navy Crosses--many awarded in lieu of an original nomination for the Medal of Honor--attest to the intensity of the battle. Based on first-person interviews from surviving veterans who came to be known as the “Frozen Chosen;†this is the incredible story of heroism and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds; as a handful of Marines fought desperately against wave after wave of Chinese forces. Sometimes forced into desperate hand-to-hand fighting in intense cold; cut off from reinforcements; and with dwindling supplies and ammunition; the fighting retreat from Chosin marked one of the darkest moments for Western forces in Korea; it but would go on to resonate with generations of Marines as a symbol of the Marine Corps' dogged determination; fighting skill; and never-say-die attitude on the battlefield.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Bonnie Jones ReynoldsA must-read for seeker of the truth.40 of 43 people found the following review helpful. Highly Recommended Analysis of the Nuremberg TrialsBy John WearMany defenders of the Holocaust story maintain that the 42-volume Trial of the Major War Criminals (The Blue Series) supplies a massive compilation of damning evidence against Germany’s National Socialist regime. In his book "Made in Russia: The Holocaust;" Carlos Porter confronts the evidence directly by reproducing page after page from the Blue Series. Porter shows that many of the charges made at Nuremberg are so bizarre that most defenders of the Holocaust story have long since let them lapse. In addition to killing Jews in homicidal gas chambers; the Germans at Nuremberg were accused of:--building special electrical appliances to zap inmates to death with mass electrical shocks;--killing 20;000 Jews in a village near Auschwitz with an atomic bomb;--forcing prisoners to climb trees and then killing the prisoners by cutting down the trees;--killing 840;000 Russian prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp using a pedal-driven brain-bashing machine; and then burning the bodies in four mobile crematories;--torturing and executing people at the Yanov camp in Russia in time to music created by a special orchestra selected from among the prisoners; and then shooting every member of the orchestra;--grinding the bones of 200 people at one time as described in documents and photographs that have disappeared;--making lampshades; handbags; driving gloves for S.S. officers; book bindings; saddles; house slippers; etc. out of human skin;--killing prisoners and concentration camp inmates for everything from having soiled underwear to having armpit hair; and--steaming people to death like lobsters in steam chambers at Treblinka.After this incredible survey of Nuremberg atrocity evidence; Carlos Porter provides numerous examples of improper prosecution tactics at Nuremberg. The defendants at Nuremberg were rarely able to confront their accusers; since affidavits from witnesses who had been deposed months before sufficed. The prosecution made it difficult for the defense lawyers to have timely access to the documents introduced into evidence by the prosecution. Also; photocopies and transcripts were usually submitted into evidence instead of the original German documents; which in many cases seemed to have disappeared. Finally; the defense had access only to those documents which the prosecution considered material to the case. The defense had no right to review the tons of remaining documents that might help them defend their clients.I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the study of the Nuremberg trials or the Holocaust.23 of 25 people found the following review helpful. Exposes Nuremberg farce. Shows how nkvd testimony was accepted ...By Christopher M OlsonExposes Nuremberg farce. Shows how nkvd testimony was accepted (?!?!). Shows how nkvd crimes were simply turned into German crimes;;; and disputation not allowed. Truly repulsive.
