Korean Odyssey: A Novel of a Marine Rifle Company in the Forgotten War

Captain Sad Sam Gerdine is marking time at Camp Pendleton in the summer of 1950. And then-war in Korea, and the Marines will be the allied fire brigade against a North Korean juggernaut rolling across the Land of the Morning Calm. From the Pusan Perimeter to the audacious landing at Inchon and on into the frigid, intense combat at the Chosin Reservoir, Sad Sam's Marines mold and meld into a shining example of how U.S. Marines get the job done despite formidable odds