The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of American Heroism in Combat

jon: Very interesting topic, they should have made a movie about this battle. Similar to the book Frozen Hours, also a good read

United States on Oct 11, 2023

Me: Born in 1940 never thought much about the Korean War. The military actions in later years were more in the news. Met a vet that was in the Marines during the Korean war. Sat listened to him describe what it was like, his words gave a true descptsion, but the book makes you feel like you are there.,so much that I. Put on a long sleeve shirt the themp the last week has been in the high 90 s.

United States on Jul 31, 2023

Ernie: The Last Hill was great. I was impressed by the photos you shared. The Last Stand of Fox Company was an equal The maps helped understand who was where, One observation M1 Garand use clips and the M1 carbine uses magazines, Also the only M1 Garand to fire fully automatic was a box fed magazine prototype that never went into production.

United States on Jul 09, 2023

Jennifer Lara: The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of US Marines in Combat by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin is a detailed account of one of the coldest battles on record. In November 1950, General MacArthur ignored Mao’s warnings and pushed his UN forces deeper into North Korea. The 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by the 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Fighting their way south through the Toktong Pass, a narrow gorge, is their only chance for survival. Led by Captain William Barber and the 234 Marines of Fox Company, the courageous but undermanned unit of the First Marines. They climb seven miles of frozen terrain to a rocky point overlooking the pass where they will endure four days and five nights of unrelenting Chinese attempts to take Fox Hill. Three-quarters of Fox Company are killed, wounded, or captured. Only a daring and impossible mission to cut through the Chinese lines may be their only chance for survival.
I have been fascinated with learning more about the Korean War since learning that my late father-in-law fought in the war. The Last Stand of Fox Company is an in depth, no-holds-bar account of the...

United States on Feb 11, 2022

steve andrews: Outstanding book, an amazing recollection of heroics that almost seem impossible to believe that it really happened. An honour to read.

Canada on Sep 15, 2020

MS: Puissant ! Le récit le plus détaillé, le plus puissant concernant le combat Marines contre chinois en Corée, 1950. Les témoignages multiplient l'impression d'oppression du combat que l'on touche du doigt.
Attention, ce livre se concentre exclusivement sur les combats menés par la Fox company sur la colline de Toktong pass du 27 au 4 décembre.
Il illustre presque charnellement et avec force les combats ultra violents ayant eu lieu entre les innombrables soldats chinois et une compagnie de Marines américains gonflés de jeunes réservistes envoyés brutalement à la guerre.
En résumé :
Une position qui doit être tenue à tout prix pour sauver leurs camarades. (pour les forces de l'ONU)
Une position qui doit être conquise à tout prix pour liquider la 1 division de Marines (pour l'armée populaire chinoise).
Le froid, l'absence de soutien (au début s'entend), l'impact de l'attaque (des attaques), la trivialité de la guerre, la mort et les blessures, les gelures, les armes enrayées, les hommes qui ronflent écrasés de fatigue en pleine bataille, les conduites héroïques banales tellement elles sont constantes. Les membres de l'USMC ont pour eux une...

France on Jan 09, 2018

Yvonne Davies: Excellent book

Canada on Jun 26, 2015

Richard Cummings: Robert Drury and Tom Clavin's "The Last Stand of Fox Company" is a superb account of a forgotten battle during the Korean War, at which 246 men held off thousands of Chinese Communist troops. Fighting in thirty below zero temperature, the vastly outnumbered Americans, using every manner of weapon at hand, stood their ground until a force of 500 cut a hole in Chinese lines, releaving the surviving members of Fox Company. As in their excellent, but somewhat derivative "Halsey's Typhoon." the authors list the names of the men of Fox Company, a painstaking effort that gives life to the men who fought in what is now known as American's "forgotten war."

At the famous battle of Thermopylae, at which the vastly outnumbered Greeks held off the Persians, the famous "300" Spartans were, in actualty, joined by several thousand other Greek soldiers, whereas at "Fox Hill," there were no other troops besides the 246 Marine and Navy men against the Chinese hoards. We know now that these Chinese troops were originally members of the defeated Nationalist army who were used by Mao Tse Tung to fight in Korea. He didn't care how may of them died. Mao was determined for China to be a world power...

United States on Feb 05, 2009