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Pork Chop Hill Mass Market Paperback – April 1, 1992

by S. Marshall (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars 12 customer reviews
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  • Mass Market Paperback
  • Publisher: Jove (October 1, 1986)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0515087327
  • ISBN-13: 978-0515087321
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn intense account of military combat
By Michael J. Mazza HALL OF FAME on April 27, 2005
Format: Mass Market Paperback
"Pork Chop Hill," by S.L.A. Marshall, is a nonfiction work about combat during the Korean War. The title page bears the subtitle "The American Fighting Man in Action--Korea, Spring, 1953." The book's copyright page notes that a William Morrow edition was published in 1956. In the preface, author Marshall recounts that he went to Korea in 1953 to work as a war correspondent, but at Army request he took on the job of investigating and analyzing infantry tactics. He describes how he held question-and-answer sessions with groups of soldiers who had been in combat. This interesting glimpse behind the making of the book adds to the text as a whole.

Marshall describes many intense, horrific, bloody scenes of combat. He vividly portrays the agonizing suffering endured by these combat troops. He covers many significant topics, among them the following: Chinese military tactics; how U.S. and Korean troops worked together; communication on the battlefield; leadership and organization; the impact of terrain on battle; and types of weapons used. I found one of the book's most interesting sections to be an account of the Ethiopian troops who fought in the war--Marshall praises these African soldiers greatly.

The book features maps and drawings by H. Garver Miller. Marshall includes a number of illuminating quotes from the fighting troops. He vividly describes how confusing the battlefield can become--the phrase "the fog of war" came to my mind over and over again as I read this book. Another phrase that this book brings to my mind is simply: "War is hell." This gripping, graphic work really makes me appreciate the remarkable challenge faced by troops in the Korean War, and the valor with which so many faced that challenge.
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5.0 out of 5 starsClassic examination of the foot-soldier's war in Korea
By A Customer on May 13, 1999
Format: Mass Market Paperback
The thing that gets me about this book is that it appears that many of the problems Marshall points out from his on-the-spot interviews with Korean war troopers are EXACTLY the ones that had such a devastating impact on our Vietnam war soldiers. Individual trooper rotation among our forces while the enemy left veterans in place to familiarize themselves with the terrain. Casual attitudes to construction of U.S. fortifications and over-reliance of artillery support while the enemy maximized concealment and exploited it for movement and deployment. Reliance on unreliable native allies. Lack of communication about objectives. Insufficient manning of positions by understrength units. etc, etc... They say the military is always prepared for the LAST war, but typically the U.S. has always been prepared for the NEXT one.
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4.0 out of 5 starsPork Chop Hill by S.L.A. Marshall
By A Customer on April 2, 2003
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Marshall's spellbinding version of the battle of Pork Chop Hill remains one of the most comprehensive books about military strategy and ground combat ever written. War veterans and military strategists would love this book.
April 1953, while peace talks continue in Panmunjom, Korea, only 70 miles away the battle of Pork Chop Hill raged. Marshall's book analyzes of one of the last battles of the War to be fought--Pork Chop Hill. Someone not familiar with what stage of the war this battle occurs may be lost by its significance. Marshall's story is about the senseless loss of lives in a battle that had no real military significance. It is recounted from the perspective of surviving soldiers through interviews immediately following the fighting.
Marshall, as a war correspondent and military operations analysis officer, is directed by the military to interview the front line men, on the battlefield, in order to make recommendations to military command of anyone deserving medals. In doing so, Marshall conveys the excruciating effort put forth by American soldiers against crafty Red Chinese, who were familiar with hillside, secret underground tunnels and well-camouflaged holes to aid in the hand-to-hand combat. Most American soldiers, recently rotated to the platoon, had not acquainted themselves with the terrain and even became lost during the night advance. At a disadvantage and exhausted, some soldiers hid in the bunkers, not even firing their rifles at the enemy.
Marshall states in his book "Compared to Gettysburg or the Ardennes, Pork Chop Hill was hardly more than a skirmish. But within the force that engaged, losses were unusually heavy."
Marshall uses this analogy to emphasize the excessive casualties for a relatively minor battle.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsAfter 50 years, a little disappointing
By moose/squirrel on July 25, 2012
Format: Mass Market Paperback
I'm giving three stars because I'm a stingy bastard who wanted to like this true account of god-awful combat in Korea more than I did. Partly I'm influenced by Marshall's diminished reputation as a first-hand investigator. For details, read some of the reviews of the book that made him famous, "Men Against Fire." In short, Col. David Hackworth and others have cast serious doubt on how much "interviewing" of GIs he really did in World War II.

But there's no doubt that "Pork Chop Hill" is the real deal. Of course, nobody can reconstruct, with near-perfect accuracy and in exactly the right order, even the most important things that 145 American riflemen did and said in a battle that left the 12 survivors exhausted and barely able to walk (I'm thinking of the chapter "All of King's Men," which provided the framework for the excellent 1959 movie). Marshall, however, gives an absolutely believable account of U.N. operations on and near the hill in April, 1953. Nobody has ever impugned the validity of this book.

A bigger reason for only three stars is that by today's standards, "Pork Chop Hill" is a little dry and in places a little hard to follow. The maps are not quite as helpful as they should be. And the people are mainly names. Marshall doesn't glorify battle, but he doesn't make it come fully alive either. I'm also disappointed that he barely mentions the irony of two sides fighting almost to the last man for a position everybody agrees has no military value whatsoever.

If you want to see how combat writing has changed in the past half century, compare "Pork Chop Hill" with Sebastian Junger's recent, dumbly-titled "War," about an Army unit in Afghanistan. Now that's a five-star book! And the biggest difference is the immediacy and style.

Three stars isn't bad, by the way.
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