Andrew Geer (1905–1957)
Auteur de The Sea Chase
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Œuvres de Andrew Geer
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- Nom canonique
- Geer, Andrew
- Date de naissance
- 1905-04-06
- Date de décès
- 1957-12-22
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
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- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 64
- Popularité
- #264,968
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 10
- Langues
- 1
I originally intended to read this book straight through, but I soon realized that the book was more or less a series of extremely detailed battle scenes, not chronically those battles on a broad scale, but instead focusing in on the experiences of small groups of Marines as they worked their way up hills, dug in to repel attacks and counter-attacks, awaiting relief or fought from trench to tree to boulder, with machine gun fire and mortar rounds coming in. I was afraid that, as extremely well created as these scenes were, they would begin to run together in my mind if I just kept reading. So I made the decision to break the book up and read it a chapter at a time as a "between book." You won't find much if anything here about the politics or larger command strategies of the Korean War. Instead, this is a report of the day to day experiences of soldiers within a hellish cauldron of war. It should be noted that as realistic and well written as the book is, it's also essentially a work of propaganda. No matter how poorly a particular battle goes, for example, it is never described as having been the result of a strategic mistake. And while there are occasional references to "slackers" or "stragglers" among the Marines, for the most part, everyone is a hero. There is, I am grateful to be able to say, no description of the war as a noble cause. The war is simply taken for granted as an assignment. So while the Korean War is not glorified, life in combat, it seems to me, is, albeit tacitly.… (plus d'informations)