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When 22 year-old 2nd Lt. DudleyHughes received orders to Korea, while stationed at Fort Bliss in the summer of 1952, he was not exactly elated but neither was he surprised. The Korean conflict had begun on the heels of WorldWar II and most of his adult male friends had seen military service. His main regret was leaving behind his beautiful wife, Robbie, after less than one year of marriage.Dudley and his twin brother, Dan, also asecond lieutenant, were allowed to serve together. They arrived in Korea in December 1952 and were assigned to separate front-line platoons, manning quad-50 machine gun halftracks. Dudley and Dan helped develop techniques that made it possible to fire multiple quad-50s at unseen targets, thereby creating a wall of fire that terrorized attacking enemy infantry and changed the course of the war. This accurate historical record is personalized by a "diary" derived from excerpts of daily letters written by the author to his young wife, lending the history a sense of immediacy and intimacy.
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Joffre Edder Gilces loor
reviewed Wall of Fire: A Diary of the Third Korean Winter Campaign on February 13, 2016
Wall of Fire: A Diary of the Third Korean Winter Campaign
Rating clarification: 4.5 stars
This book marked a very satisfactory conclusion of my 2010 reading challenge, and will certainly have a permanent spot on my bookshelf. Thomas Fleming's foray into the lives of America's six founding fathers and the various female influences on their lives might have, in a different writer's hands, been trite, repetitive or uninspiring. Not the case here, and if you are a casual to moderate fan of this genre of non-fiction American history, I seriously urge you to pick this book up. You will not be disappointed.
Fleming provides an engrossing and fascinating glimpse into the pre-and-post-Revolutionary war world of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. More to the point, Fleming focuses on the women who played a central role in each of their lives, be it their mother, wife, and/or daughter. Although I knew many things about them as a whole, I definitely learned some interesting tid-bits about each woman that I didn't previously, and can say that in the case of Elizabeth Hamilton and Dolley Madison, I gained a much, much greater respect for them.
(This book also re-inforces a long held personal belief of mine that Thomas Jefferson is still a putz, John Adams remains a drama queen of the highest order, and Martha Jefferson would have greatly benefited by copious amounts of valium...but I digress.)
Simply un-put-down-able. Would make a great companion book for Jospeh Ellis' Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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