Darkest Summer

From “a master of the combat narrative” comes “a gripping, fast-moving and sobering” chronicle of the US military’s first two battles in the Korean War (Dallas Morning News).

The Darkest Summer recounts, in strikingly vivid and authoritative detail, the first three months of the Korean War. In that brief time, outnumbered and outgunned Marines and GIs executed two of the greatest military operations in history and saved South Korea—and the Marine Corps—from extinction.

Here are the dramatic stories of Pusan and Inchon as they have never been told before. Studded with gripping eyewitness accounts, this narrative focuses on how the Americans who fought in these decisive battles went—however briefly—from the depths of despair to the exultation of total conquest. Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of surviving US veterans, it reveals how one ninety-day period changed the course of modern history and opens a unique and revealing window on an all-but-forgotten war.