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Book Review of Retreat, Hell! (Corps, Bk 10)

Retreat, Hell! (Corps, Bk 10)
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About the U.S. Marine Corps in the Korean War.

It is the fall of 1950. The Marines haves made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but the roller coaster awaits them. While Douglas MacArthur chomps at the bit, intent on surging across the 38th parallel, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering works despesrately to mediate the escalating battle between MacArthur and President Harry Truman. And somewhere out there, Pickering's own daredevil pilot son, Pick, is lost behind enemy lines -- and may be lost forever ...