CONTENTS
Maps = ⅷ
Foreword / by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway ; Gen. James A. Van Fleet = ⅹ
Preface = xiii
Acknowledgments = xv
Abbreviations = xvi
1 The Long, Long Summer = 1
Kaesong Has Fallen = 1
The Munsan Defense Line Crumbles = 8
Across the Han by Raft = 15
2 Retreat to the Naktong : 200 Miles of Hell = 23
Delaying Actions = 23
No Place to Run = 28
Bloody Fighting at the Naktong = 34
Reversing the Tide of War = 46
3 We Lead the Way North = 55
Back the Way We Came = 55
Attacking Pyongyang "Patton's Way" = 61
The Greatest Day of My Life = 68
Pyongyang Is Free = 74
The Chinese Trap = 82
Last Hours in Unsan : The Bloody Autumn Night = 90
4 Dashed Hopes = 98
Rest and Recuperation = 98
The Christmas Offensive : Blind March to Disaster = 103
The Wretched Withdrawal of January 4, 1951 = 110
Seesaw Battles on the Central Front = 119
5 Back to the 38th Parallel = 128
Spring Breezes Blow on the Han River = 128
War Rations, Courtesy of General MacArthur = 133
Departing the 1st Division = 134
Withdraw of Fight to the Death = 141
The Collapse of Ⅲ Corps = 147
Concentrated Training for the ROK Army = 157
6 What Will We Lose and What Will We Gain? = 164
Representing Korea at Armistice Talks No Korean Wants = 164
The Truce Talks Falter = 172
Return to the Front = 175
Task Force Paik Hammers Guerrillas = 179
Quiet Returns to the Chiri = 186
Organizing Ⅱ Corps Symbol of the New Army = 194
7 The Road to Four Stars and Army Chief of Staff = 201
A New Honor = 201
Solving Ration Problems and Stacks of Other Issues = 208
Korea's First Four-Star General = 214
The War Enters a New Phase = 221
Releasing Anticommunist POWs, startling the World = 228
Clutching for the High Ground = 234
8 The War Ends at Last = 244
Did the War Make Unification More Remote? = 244
Chief of Staff Again = 249
Epilogue = 253
Index = 255
The Author = 271
