Retreat, Hell!

RETREAT, HELL! is book 10 of 10 in The Corps series. I binged read all 10 books in less than 3 months. I stopped and read something else but quickly returned to the series. The reason that I found the entire series so addicting is that there are constant characters throughout most of the series, e.g......more

History repeats itself, as it actually did in the Korean War. After having been caught by surprise by North Korea initiating the war, it is clear that MacArthur and his staff are about to be caught by surprise again by the Chinese entering the war. The military part of this novel is all about Picker......more

Some good action in this one though a lot of it is discussion after the fact. As usual there's far too much back story. Either the author expects many people to read a series out of order or that faithful readers are idiots. I'm not sure which bothers me more. The point that almost had me rating this......more

I had spent a year in Korea with the 503rd Infantry at Camp Casey before I read this book, and I knew the bullet points of that war, ROK (Republic of Korea) + Task Force Smith pushed back to the Naktong river aka Pusan Perimeter, Macarthur lands at Incheon destroying the Nork army then racing up the......more

Major Ken "Killer" McCoy is about to be separated from the Marine Corps due to an intelligence report he submitted that disagrees with General MacArther's beliefs regarding Korea. McCoy is kept on active duty and runs an intelligence gathering operation investigating possible Chinese intervention in......more