The Marines Of Autumn: A Novel Of The Korean War - Plot & Excerpts
. . . His men, singly or in small, leaderless bands, were chivied and hunted like animals by the victorious Chinese chasing at their heels. Captain Verity suspected, and with reason, that a new hand had been dealt. For him. And perhaps for his child. The time of monitoring the radio and passing on unit identification numbers to a general officer, the time of questioning Chinese POWs, including those lacking a left arm, and telling a colonel like Fleet what he’d learned that might be of value to his battalion, the time of playing at war, was over. They had promised Verity that he wasn’t being sent to Korea to command troops and fight as an infantryman. “We’ve got plenty of rifle company commanders, Verity.” Oh, yeah. Verity hadn’t been lied to by that smooth headquarters colonel back there on a hot day in Virginia; he understood that. But the ground rules had changed. The war had changed. His role had changed. So had his chances of going home after a lousy month or six weeks.
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