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  • Colder than Hell

  • A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir
  • By: Joseph R. Owen
  • Narrated by: Richard Rohan
  • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Colder than Hell

By: Joseph R. Owen
Narrated by: Richard Rohan
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Joe Owen tells it like it was in this evocative story of a marine rifle company in the uncertain, early days of the Korean War. His powerful description of close combat in the snow-covered mountains of the Chosin Reservoir and of the survival spirit of his Marines provide a gritty real-life view of frontline warfare.

As a lieutenant who was with them from first muster in California, Owen was in a unique position to see the hastily assembled mix of some 200 regulars and raw reservists harden into a superb Marine rifle company. The action and narrative move fast as the company learns to fight under enemy fire, eat frozen rations, and keep pushing forward when its wounded and dead go down.
©1996 by Joseph Owen (P)1998 by the Naval Institute Press
Military Military & War Military science Korean War War Young Adult Naval History
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"Owen's firsthand account is chilling and rather wonderful." (James Brady)
"Joe Owen's account of Baker-One-Seven's courageous ordeal is blunt, authentic, and compelling - a fitting tribute to his company and to his Corps." (Col. Joseph Alexander, USMC (ret.))

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A must have for war buffs

I’m an excellent, first hand account from training, to the war, to outcome. Graphic, no holds barred, including a lot of choice language, references to racism and real life situations these men dealt with. It’s an uncompromising and nasty book and it throws the listener into its world without remorse.

The narrator is exceptional - as someone else stated, there is nothing clinical about his reading of the book, he used style and tone to draw you in - which really helps the flow.

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