Full name: The Last Parallel: A Marine's War Journal

Author: Martin Russ Year: 1957 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780880642378 9781541229648 0880642378 1541229649

Long regarded as one of the best books about combat ever written, The Last Parallel -- an undisputed classic of the Korean War -- is back in print. A national bestseller and a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection, The Last Parallel "ranks top among combat soldiers' war records of all time", said Fred T. Marsh in The New York Herald Tribune. John P. Marquand in the Book-of-the-Month Club News concurred: "The Last Parallel is about the best account of combat I have read. One could even rate it as a higher achievement in some respects than that classic, The Red Badge of Courage ... Every reader wilt see death and danger as Sergeant Russ saw it. He will wince at the explosion of the mortar shells. Vicariously he will struggle every step of the way as Russ and his companions bring back the dead and wounded ... it is the best pro-Marine book yet to be published and one that should be read by mothers, wives and sweethearts, as well as everyone who has worn a uniform". Similar books: Breakout by Martin Russ This Kind of War by T. R. Fehrenbach On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides The Forgotten War by Clay Blair The Darkest Summer by Bill Sloan Colder Than Hell by Joseph R. Owen East of Chosin by Roy E. Appleman The Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam Devotion by Adam Makos The Coldest War by James Brady The Marines of Autumn by James Brady The Korean War by Bruce Cumings Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Go Like Hell by A. J. Baime Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer