

East of Chosin
Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950
Author: Roy E. Appleman
Narrator: Sean Runnette
Unabridged: 13 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/30/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Wars, Korean War
Synopsis
In November 1950, U.S. forces had pushed deep into North Korea. Unknown to them, Chinese troops well equipped for below-zero temperatures and blizzard conditions were pushing south. With the 1st Marine Division on the west side of the frozen Chosin Reservoir, the army's hastily assembled 31st Regimental Combat Team, 3,000 strong, advanced up the east side of the reservoir. Task Force Faith in the extreme northern position caught the surprise Chinese attack. With rifles and vehicles often immobilized in the cold and snow, the task force struggled to retreat through a tortuous mountain gauntlet of enemy fire. With truckloads of dead and wounded trapped along the road, a few of the 385 survivors trudged across the frozen reservoir to alert the marines to their plight.