A gripping tale of valor and sacrifice in the forgotten war that never truly ended.
Colonel James "Oliver" Cromwell, a warrior forged at Notre Dame and Hitler's Berlin Olympics, is restlessly beached on garrison duty in California when he's ordered to fresh duty as military attaché in a dull Asian backwater. There, on a June Sunday, Korea violently erupts and Cromwell is caught up in the early, panicked rout. While South Koreans cut and run, the first GIs are brushed aside by advancing Red tanks and tough peasant infantry.
The Marine chronicles the war-hardened Cromwell's experience of the dramatic First Hundred Days of a brutal three-year war: the chaos and cowardice of retreat, the last-ditch gallantry of the Pusan Perimeter, MacArthur's brilliant left hook sending Marines against the deadly seawall at Inchon, and the bloody assault to liberate Seoul and promote MacArthur's 1952 presidential ambitions.
In this powerful novel, James Brady crafts the story of one man's service to his country and Corps in a "forgotten war" that never truly ended, but for a bitter truce along what a recent U.S. president called "the most dangerous border in the world."