Post by Woodard on Feb 24, 2008 13:15:36 GMT -5
I just finished "The Coldest War", so I figured I'd write up a quick summary. James Brady is an author who has written several fictional books about Marines, "Marines of Autumn"(fictional account of the Chosin fighting) and "A warning of War" (Marines in North China Pre-WWII). "Coldest war" is his memoir of being a platoon leader and later intelligence officer in the 2nd/7th Marines during late 1951-mid 1952. I enjoyed it, I felt like I identified a lot more with Brady than I did with Martin Russ in "the last parallel". He talks about a lot of things that aren't in many memoirs, (I believe there was at least one whole paragraph on dingleberries) and has no problem talking about people he doesn't like, or when he screws up or is scared. He mentions changing some names, and never actually mentions which Battalion he served in, but it was pretty easy to uncover. He wasn't involved in any major fighting, and I think this is why he's able to go into such detail about patrolling and life on the MLR. "Last Parallel" went into more technical detail about patrolling procedure, but this one I found to be more readable, as all of Russ' patrols tended to blend together.
