{"product_id":"9780312331054","title":"The Marine : A Novel of War from Guadalcanal to Korea","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Marine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): James Brady\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rousing new Marine Corps adventure from the author of the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eWarning of War\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Marines of Autumn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  Marine is Colonel James (\"Oliver\") Cromwell, a warrior forged at Notre  Dame and the Berlin of Hitler's Olympics, and honed by combat at  Guadalcanal as one of Carlson's Marine Raiders. With the world at peace,  the thirty-five-year old Cromwell is restlessly, if pleasantly, beached  on garrison duty in California, aware of how much he misses the war,  when he is ordered to fresh duty beyond the seas, as military attaché to  the American ambassador in a dull Asian backwater half a world away.  There, at dawn on a June Sunday, Ollie gets his wish for action. Korea  violently erupts and Colonel Cromwell is caught up in the early,  panicked, rout. While South Koreans cut and run, the first GIs hurried  into battle are brushed aside by advancing Red tanks and tough peasant  infantry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Marine\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the war-hardened  Cromwell's experience of the dramatic First Hundred Days of a brutal  three-year Korean 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. Ollie Cromwell's is the story of 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Marine\u003c\/i\u003e, James Brady crafts a powerful novel of one man's service to his country and  Corps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312331054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40671123701966,"sku":"9780312331054","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_00ea7a01-e6e5-4967-aed2-5c47c34a08b2.jpg?v=1639801458","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312331054","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}