A review by bupdaddy
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides

4.0

Sides provides an episodic account of the invasion from the east coast of North Korea across the middle, and the necessary retreat attack in the other direction necessitated by MacArthur (and his equally arrogant sidekick Almond)'s ridiculous, self-serving, cherry-picked-evidence based assessment of China's presence on the Yalu River (in MacArthur's estimate, it was 0 - he was off by about 250,000).

Each section centers on individuals, which makes the narrative compelling, after all, humans experience life in the microcosm; however, in the end the style maybe glorifies war a bit too much. I guess some people really do find it romantic.