Breakout

Breakout Platinum Edition
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I purchased this CD of Miley Cyrus for my Granddaughter for Christmas. Therefore as yet, I have not listened to it. It was on my granddaughters list of ideas for Christmas Gifts. I am excited to hear it after I give it to her on Christmas Eve.

Cathy from Taylor, Mich.

Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950
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"Gripping" is the only word I can find for this tale of the Chosin Resovoir campaign. To reduce it all to one line, the massively outnumbered U.S. Marines fought their way out of a Chinese trap that looked like a disaster. Russ puts us right in the midst of the freezing foxholes, bewildering terrain, terrible roads, and worse weather, all of which sometimes made it hard to tell friend from foe. He tells about the big picture while keeping the story on a human scale: men building barricades of bodies, men on both sides scrounging anything they could find from their own dead or the enemy's, wounded and frostbitten men who fought until they were killed or sometimes frozen to death at their posts.
It's been said Russ lionizes the Marines and disparages the Army too much. However, he tells the truth about the only-human Marines: some did give up, some did flee, some units did collapse. In the end, though, Russ convincingly argues the Marines' esprit de corps kept most of them together when almost any other force would have disintegrated. As to the Army, they really couldn't have been expected to perform as well on average, given that many units had large proportions of recent conscripts, American and Korean.
It's a cliche to say you can't put a book down, but I couldn't lay this one aside.

Breakout
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Bronson, the only man who could take Chuck Norris in a fight, is at his best in this one. Hilarious quotes from Bronson help make up the differences in a thin plot. If you love Bronson, you need this one.

Breakout
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