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HILLTOP DOC, a Marine Corpsman Fighting Through the Mud and Blood of the Korean War, Leonard Adreon

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HILLTOP DOC, a Marine Corpsman Fighting Through the Mud and Blood of the Korean War, Leonard Adreon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

HILLTOP DOC

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Leonard Adreon

Sub title

a Marine Corpsman Fighting Through the Mud and Blood of the Korean War

Summary

As a Marine corpsman, Leonard Adreon saw some of the worst of the Korean War's carnage and the best of its humanity. His gripping description brings to life the war between the Chinese army and the U.S. Marines as they battled to take the high ground. You will feel the anguish, the frustration and the terror endured by Marines on the hillsides of Korea, and how U.S. troops fought with valor and esprit de corps under adverse conditions and against massive Chinese forces. As a corpsman, Adreon tells the story from the unique perspective of a young man from St. Louis, with no medical background, thrown into the role of saving lives amid the war's violence. He leavens the grim, emotional, and sometimes ironic battlefield scenes with his background story - of how his own mistakes and the military's bumbling landed him at Korea's 38th Parallel. A Marine corpsman transports readers to the bloody hills of the Korean War with his vivid, personal and thoughtful personal memories

Target audience

adult

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