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The coldest night / a novel by Robert Olmstead.

Olmstead, Robert. (Author).

Summary:

Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly consumes him. But Mercy's family disapproves, and the two young lovers flee to New Orleans to play out their passionate affair, until Mercy's father hunts them down, takes his daughter home, and sends Henry running for his life. Henry enlists in the Marines and overnight is thrown into the eve of the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservior in a decisive moment of the Korean War. But even having dealt with an enemy force far beyond the scope of his imagining and temperatures fifty degrees below zero, the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.

Record details

ISBN: 9781616200435
ISBN: 161620043X
Physical Description: 287 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012.