Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action: Korea, Spring, 1953 (Twelfth in The Combat Arms Series)

In 1953, the American Strategy in Korea's Yokkokchon Valley dictated a series o lightly defended outposts hunched upon the region's rugged hilltops. these were live bait, drawing the Chinese out of their fortifications so that the massed U. S. artillery could chew them to hell. on april 16, 1953, the enemy swallowed the lure, hurling a human wave against the 7th Division's outposts on Pork Chop Hill. In 48 hours of vicious close-quarter and hand-to-hand fighting, Pork Chop was taken and lost a dozen times. The author delivers a riveting account of that bitter battle, which stands as a true classic of military history.--The book is illustrated with maps.