The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War
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Jeff Shaara. (2017). The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War. Random House Publishing Group.

Jeff Shaara. 2017. The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War. Random House Publishing Group.

Jeff Shaara, The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War. Random House Publishing Group, 2017.

Jeff Shaara. The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War. Random House Publishing Group, 2017.

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   • bioText: Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Fateful Lightning, The Smoke at Dawn, A Chain of Thunder, A Blaze of Glory, The Final Storm, No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure—two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Gettysburg.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The master of military historical fiction turns his discerning eye to the Korean War in this riveting novel, which tells the dramatic story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one of the deadliest campaigns in the annals of combat: the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as Frozen Chosin.
June 1950. The North Korean army invades South Korea, intent on uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops, and together they drive the North Koreans back to their border with China.
But several hundred thousand Chinese troops have entered Korea, laying massive traps for the Allies. In November 1950, the Chinese spring those traps. Allied forces, already battling stunningly cold weather, find themselves caught completely off guard as the Chinese advance around the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. A force that once stood on the precipice of victory now finds itself on the brink of annihilation. Assured by General Douglas MacArthur that they would be home by Christmas, the soldiers and Marines fight for their lives against the most brutal weather conditions imaginable—and an enemy that outnumbers them more than six to one.
The Frozen Hours tells the story of Frozen Chosin from multiple points of view: Oliver P. Smith, the commanding general of the American 1st Marine Division, who famously redefined retreat as “advancing in a different direction”; Marine Private Pete Riley, a World War II veteran who now faces the greatest fight of his life; and the Chinese commander Sung Shi-Lun, charged with destroying the Americans he has so completely surrounded, ever aware that above him, Chairman Mao Tse-Tung watches his every move. 
Written with the propulsive force Jeff Shaara brings to all his novels of combat and courage, The Frozen Hours transports us to the critical moment in the history of America’s “Forgotten War,” when the fate of the Korean peninsula lay in the hands of a brave band of brothers battling both the elements and a determined, implacable foe.
“A military story as dramatic and heroic as any that exists.”—The American Interest
“The Frozen Hours . . . illustrates again Shaara’s mastery. . . . This is fiction and history at their blended best.”—Marine Corps Gazette
“Marvelously effective storytelling . . . that shows us what warfare feels like both to those who plan campaigns and those who execute them . . . gripping, precisely detailed historical fiction.”—Booklist (starred review)

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     May 15, 2017
     In the bitter cold winter of 1950, in the middle of the Korean War, hell froze over for Gen. O.P. Smith as his 1st Marine Division led MacArthur's push to the Yalu River at the China-Korea border.MacArthur miscalculated. The Chinese feared United Nations forces would cross into China and responded with a massive pre-emptive attack near Chosin Reservoir. Shaara's (A Chain of Thunder, 2013, etc.) latest is a novel of character formed in war's crucible. Smith, thought a plodder by glory hounds, is a master strategist, saving his division--and much of the army's 7th Division--from being wiped out by "advancing in another direction." There are views from the front lines: in minus-35-degree temperatures, phlegmatic Sgt. Hamilton Welch leads the defense of a barren hilltop against human wave attacks. Welch's confidant, Okinawa veteran Pete Riley, collapses from malnutrition and dehydration. A doctor gives him a can of fruit cocktail, and he returns to the fighting, feeling "the guilt, the odd need to stay out here, that even if they couldn't fight, they didn't want to leave their units." There are also candid assessments of MacArthur, poorly served by yes men and intelligence officers; his 10th Corps commander, the arrogant and pompous Almond; and ever stoic Smith. The communist modus operandi comes through Gen. Sung, a wily survivor of Mao's legendary Long March, and Maj. Orlov, Stalin's on-site observer; conversations between them are sharp and revealing. Shaara's pace never stumbles. Weather is everyone's common enemy--the desolate mountain terrain is constantly scoured by implacable winds and freezing temperatures--which is reflected in scenes such as a Marine sharing bottles of whiskey baked into his wife's homemade bread; a crusty battalion commander rescuing stragglers lost on a frozen reservoir; or Marines treated to hot Thanksgiving dinner only to find the food freezing quickly in their mess kits. Brilliant, thoroughly readable historical fiction.

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     Starred review from May 15, 2017
     Shaara, whose previous series covered the Civil War and World War II, moves now to the Korean War, once again utilizing his familiar and marvelously effective storytelling technique of jumping between several first-person narrators, from generals to foot soldiers, and creating in the process a zoom-lens effect that shows us what warfare feels like both to those who plan campaigns and those who execute them. That gap between plan and execution was never wider than in the battle of Choisin Reservoir, where American soldiers, in the dead of winter, were surrounded by Chinese forces outnumbering them by more than five to one, despite the fact that General Douglas MacArthur, calling the shots from the safety of Tokyo, continued to insist that only a handful of Chinese were engaged in the fight in support of the North Koreans. As Shaara juggles the story of two marines in the thick of the battle, Private Pete Riley and General O. P. Smith, with that of Smith's Chinese counterpart, General Sung Shi-Lun, the reader sees the sheer madness of MacArthur's megalomaniacal desire to liberate all of North Korea and the unimaginable horror that his folly produced. As in so much great military fiction, however, Shaara contrasts the futility and utter absurdity of the war against the courage of the soldiers, especially the marines under Smith's command who fight an attack in reverse in order to escape the Chinese. Gripping, precisely detailed historical fiction.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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