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“retreat, hell! we’re just attacking in another direction! ” —general o. p. smith
retreat hell (the empire' s corp' s, # 8) by christopher g. nuttall
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‎retreat, hell! (1952) directed by joseph h. lewis • reviews, film + cast • letterboxd
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retreat, hell! is a 1952 american film about the 1st marine division in the battle of chosin reservoir directed by joseph h. lewis .
the fighting marines get a film salute in retreat, hell! , a topnotch war drama blending some celluloid rah - rah with tense action, and generally enacted with effectiveness. title is lifted from the historic remark credited to gen oliver p. smith: ‘retreat, hell! we’re just advancing in a different direction. ’
the fighting marines get a film salute in retreat, hell! , a topnotch war drama blending some celluloid rah - rah with tense action, and generally enacted with effectiveness. title is lifted from the historic remark credited to gen oliver p. smith:' retreat, hell! we' re just advancing in a different direction.'
the fighting marines get a film salute in retreat, hell! , a topnotch war drama blending some celluloid rah - rah with tense action, and generally enacted with effectiveness. title is lifted from the historic remark credited to gen oliver p. smith: ‘retreat, hell! we’re just advancing in a different direction. ’ film has a personal equation, detailing the [ … ]
next, let me explain why (the hell) we actually paid someone for the pleasure of not eating .
' s character, lt. col steve corbett, says ,
retreat, hell! we' re not retreating, we' re just advancing in a different direction .
this was actually said by maj. gen .
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as standard and cut and dry as war movies get, retreat, hell! has its moments but for the most part the film was made to glorify american marines. after a fairly somnambulant first act where very little of much consequence occurs, the film settles into a fairly predictable routine of non stop action scenes which are briefly interrupted by pesky things like dialogue and exposition .
we arrived at the retreat location, which is somewhere in new england, in the spring. the building itself seemed normal enough from the outside as a typical historic new england structure
i' m a fan of joseph lewis. he' s made a couple of great movies and i admire the way he can make visually exciting cinema with limited resources - in fact, the limited resources seemed to inspire him to find exciting ways to stage his scenes, imagination replacing big budgets. but retreat, hell! is probably the drabbest of his films that i' ve seen. a combat film, made during the korean war about the korean war, a glorification of the u. s. marines. and if we are looking for an auteur, producer - writer milton sperling, who once served with the marines, is probably the culprit. although i presume retreat, hell! wasn' t a b movie, it was hardly big budget: made with the collaboration of…
“it can be terrifying, tormenting, heaven and hell. there’s a real sense of duality, ” he says. “it’s been described as the best psychologist, the best doctor and the best priest at your beck and call. ”
well - directed by the great joseph h. lewis (gun crazy (1950), the big combo (1955) ) and despite some plot clichés and flag - waving, retreat hell registers as a solid war drama. the “retreat” of the first marine division from the manchurian border during the korean conflict is treated with grim and gritty realism. the presence of b - movie superstars richard carlson and frank lovejoy greatly enhances the proceedings. watch for actor / writer nedrick young as sergeant novak. young won an academy award for best screenplay in 1958 for the defiant ones under a pseudonym (nathan e. douglas) because he had been blacklisted in 1953 .
visitors to refugio altiplano typically pay $ us1500 ($ a1850) for a 12 - day retreat, which includes seven ceremonies with “strict processes governing the pouring of medicine, the blessings and protection of the room” .
the saga of a battalion of u. s. marines during the korean war, starting with their training, landing at inchon in 1950, advance into north korea and their subsequent retreat back to the 38th parallel .
retreat hell, author christopher nuttall' s eighth book in the empire' s corps series, trends back to marine jasmine yamane. she' s given command of a military force tasked with backing up the teetering government on an industrially rich but economically threatened planet called thule. little does she know that the rebels are backed by weapons from rival wolfbane, which is trying to defeat the still susceptible commonwealth and bolster its own status after the fall of earth and the empire. yamane d
i sat down on the edge of the bed, which screamed like a demon freshly emerged from hell. i could hear the other writer - resident two rooms down shifting in her own screaming - demon bed. had she heard the fuckshits too? was this just a thing that happens here ?
while i knew it would be challenging and not you’re average post - christmas festivity routine, there’s nothing that could have quite prepared me for the emotional (and gastric) rollercoaster that was the golden rock retreat in amed, bali. (spoiler alert – this gets ugly) .
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the local fox channel in los angeles must have harbored a cell of fans of retreat, hell! , because it seemed as if they showed this film at least once a month in the hours between 2 and 5 a. m. i was hooked after one viewing, although i know i came in somewhere in the middle; it was some time before my erratic sleep patterns fell into synch with the program schedule. i can' t recommend it too highly - - it is a tribute to all cliches of all war movies to that date, without the distraction created by interesting characters, plot or technical skill. watch it again and again and you' ll understand .
i’ve been back from my 7 - day detox for a week now, and when people ask me “how was the detox? ! ” with an excitable smile (anticipating stories of my newfound serenity and rejuvenated internal cleanliness) so that they might consider doing a detox retreat for themselves… i just look at them squarely and ask them to sit down, and listen .
i’d done my own juice cleanses over the years, i’d drank enough herbal teacups to sink titanic, i’d popped sustained - release antioxidant capsules aplenty… but i’d never decided to stop everything else completely (work, routine, play, training, travel) to purely take a break to focus on my insides – both guts and mind. it sounds odd to pay someone something ‘for nothing’ (no solid food during the retreat) but without the retreat structure there’s no way i could have personally done something to the effect of this – both physically (with the well - timed liquid supplements and physical treatments that make up any given detox retreat day) and mentally, with the ‘switch - off’ of the mobile phone due to no reception for calls or internet… except for one sneaky motorbike ride up the mountain half - way through the detox - week … to spend $ 100 in data - roaming for god - knows what level of social - media satisfaction. i think 4 days - in (without solid food) i was just seeking sustenance from some sort of feed… newsfeed would do nom nom nom. i felt dirty for a few hours afterwards go figure .
i attended the peppers masterclass food experience retreat. i was also a getaway for me, and i found it to be wonderfully relaxing. the cooking class side of things was fantastic too, the group picked up great tips and enjoyed superb food at every meal, including the one we prepared! i hope they do another one, and promote it well as it was great value for money .
finally, with no answers, i backed the car from its space and began inching down the long dirt driveway. on our left we could see angry guy digging roughly with a shovel in the house’s expansive front garden; the director of the retreat, a man whom we had seen only once so far, and who had firmly ignored our efforts to say hello, was looking on from the porch .
– a time that is otherwise spent consuming as much food and alcohol with as many friends and family as possible. basically, it was a double - sided - strategy to help avoid the annual smashing i’ve given myself each december (for the last decade and a half), as the month leading into the retreat would require preparation to make the most out of it (so i had no alcohol for the month of december; and no red - meat, refined sugar or dairy for the final week). it was good having a ‘story’ of the upcoming detox retreat, to help navigate through many christmas party and end - of - year lunches that pressed for a smashing. if people think they can twist your arm they might try, but if you’re firm and resolute - and have a simple story of a detox retreat coming up that you’ve invested in, sailing through a big party period can be a breeze. i remember dancing (totally sober) at our work christmas party and someone coming up to me and saying, “gees you’re really getting into it how much have you had to drink? ”… i was just like “ahhhh…. time to go home”… and i moonwalked straight out of there in one of the great phantom maneuvers .
the detox was hard. it was harder than i thought. it was something i would only recommend to someone who felt ‘ready’ and keen to push themselves to the limit for the betterment of their insides. day three i felt like i could give up and go get some salty lamb chops… but being committed to a retreat program meant that simply wasn’t an option. once i broke through the day three haze, i could see this was going to be an incredible experience as a whole .
retreat hell, author christopher nuttall' s eighth book in the empire' s corps series, trends back to marine jasmine yamane. she' s given command of a military force tasked with backing up the teetering government on an industrially rich but economically threatened planet called thule. little does she know that the rebels are backed by weapons from rival wolfbane, which is trying to defeat the still susceptible commonwealth and bolster its own status after the fall of earth and the empire. yamane does well against the rebels, while questioning if she should be fighting on their side instead of the weak government supported by the wealthy business owners, who don' t allow votes to people without jobs. this means most people can' t vote because the economy went into a tailspin after the fall of the empire, and before that its slow decline. nuttall tells the story through his characters, who are quite well developed by this point. the action continues to push the reader along, and nuttall gets his points about economics and its influence on politics in the meantime. it' s fun stuff. i had to read three of these in a row, which is no small time commitment .
perhaps coming to olive in such a roundabout manner, i. e. , a warner release whose rights (if i get this right) first transferred to republic then mélange then viacom then paramount and now sublicensed to olive, the film elements are in okay but not great shape. clouding matters further is director joseph h. lewis frequent use of dissolves and late - in - the - game optical printing (because he didn' t shoot enough coverage ?) and the use of scratched - to - hell military stock footage. nevertheless, overall the image is pretty good and its flaws don' t take the viewer out of the film .
: after following those steps outlined above, i drank the lemon and oil and then an hour later… omfg. an hour later (and each hour after that) some stuff (from hell) was eliminated from my body. after not eating solids for 5 days i was feeling relatively clean anyway…. so to see the likes of this gunk coming out (from my gallbladder and liver) was equal parts gross and sensationally cleansing. who even knew that stuff was in there? it was nothing short of gross to see it come out – but in this instance, i would 100% rather this stuff out than in. the liver - cleanse was the single most extreme and awesome part of the whole experience .
we drove away from the retreat house that morning with a relief so overwhelming it turned into deranged giddiness. had we actually survived? were we ever in danger? marianne and i are writers, after all, which in our case makes us as imaginative and fanciful and prone to elaborate storymaking as your average third grader, and we do egg each other on. still, it sure seemed like something strange had been going on during our visit. the profanity, the weird behavior of pretty much everyone we met, the creepy late - night footsteps, the general tension of the house overall, the corpse garden .
“he’s been doing that for half an hour, ” she explained in a whisper. she had gone downstairs at one point and even then, he didn’t let up. angry guy was bashing pots around a kitchen like a sugar - addled toddler with a prodigal gift for muttered profanities. it turned out he was just making dinner as loudly as possible, because eventually the smell of cooking food drifted up from the kitchen to where marianne and i sat upstairs. i wondered, who was angry guy’s noisy cooking supposed to punish? i realized we hadn’t seen desdemona all day. we had only caught a glimpse of the retreat’s director once, as we left that morning .
we live relatively locally, but had never heard of this place. we have stayed at other peppers resorts, so that, and the september special persuaded us to give this place a try. we were not disappointed! excellent welcoming, yet professional staff, fantastic location, clean, comfortable accomodation, and last but not least fantastic food! ! i personally loved the lack of mobile reception... . it can' t be a retreat if your phone is going off and people can contact you easily! i would highly reccomend the restaurant, and don' t forget to go down to the creek and hang out (literally) in the hammocks, so peaceful and relaxing - i wish we could have stayed longer. . if i had to complain i would say: the bed wasn' t amazing - but i love a solid mattress, and i am seven months pregnant, so that could be personal preference / whinge! the spa and pool could do with an upgrade but were still nice, the only downside was that the gas storage area hidden behind the spa which let out a whiff of gas now and again. and the morning we were there it was continental breakfast only... ... which was a bit of a let down. all in all, a really nice, peaceful retreat. i would go again in a heartbeat: )
i will be purposely vague on details because i am not writing this as an indictment of the retreat space in question. and i don’t want to hurt their business if it’s doing well. it’s possible our visit was an anomaly. according to many people on the internet, most visitors to this location have a wonderful experience there, and none have publicly described the bizarre scenario we found ourselves in. (or at the least, they haven’t done so and survived. perhaps even now, as i write this, a dark - haired demon girl is cracking her knuckles behind my laptop screen, readying herself to lunge onto my desk and disappoint me to death. let’s watch and see. )
part of me wonders if i should give that place a second chance; the reviews online are consistently positive, so much so that i continue to suspect that we passed through some kind of portal into the silent hill version of the retreat space — one that, instead of being peaceful and filled with inspiration, is populated by perverse twisted horror versions of all the good things former visitors had described. if nothing else, i got a story out of it, even if it wasn’t the story i expected or wanted. sometimes life gives you lemons. and sometimes life gives you fuckshits, and you’re like, “what, i can’t even make lemonade out of these things. also please don’t kill me in the dead of night. ”
neither of us felt safe discussing this subject further inside the house, so we gathered our stuff to leave for the day and we put on our contraband shoes and went to the car, where we began formulating scenarios that would explain the blonde woman’s sudden absence. had she only planned to stay one night? that seemed unlikely, as these kinds of retreat spaces typically host residents for a few days at least, and usually a week or more. had she fled in terror? given that i’d considered doing the same on the night of the fuckshits, it was possible. had she met with some terrible fate? did that doll in the hallway kill her? was it angry guy, in his mr. hyde persona? of course, marianne and i hadn’t technically been attacked, but i reasoned that maybe that was only because either of us would prove very bulky to carry downstairs while unconscious or dead .
i' ve been coming to byron bay for a few years for my own personal holidays and wanted to check this place out before committing to a stay, so this is what folks in the business call a
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. the first thing anyone will notice is that it' s way out of town in the back blocks of byron bay near bangalow - both great spots in themselves - but not really close enough to be convenient. this factor could work both ways in your vacation planning making it great for a couples retreat but not so much for a family holiday. the cabins are individually self - contained and standalone, so you won' t be bothered by your neighbour' s hob - nailed boots. they' re roomy but not lavish, comfortable, clean and neat without being luxurious. the restaurant' wilson’s by the creek' has a considerable reputation and head chef, adam hall, is a bit of a local' rock star' among chefs. his gourmet and culinary weekends have quite a following, so this may be a good excuse to get out there. of course you can come out and dine without staying, but due to licensing, the restaurant is only open to non - resident guests fri - sat - sun. at the time of my visit, there was some ground clearing going on to remove non - native species and the new onsite manager (paul) had just moved in. there were some adverse comments about the previous manager who i never met, so this ...
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joseph h. lewis, a director of b movies during hollywood' s golden era whose work received great critical acclaim after his retirement, has died .
lewis died aug. 30 at st. john' s hospital in santa monica, said his friend, dr. gail reingold. lewis was believed to be 93, although some reference books list his birthday as april 6, 1900 .
in movies like
the big combo ,
terror in a texas town ,
my name is julia ross
and
gun crazy ,
lewis transcended the limits of the b movie franchise, making fast - paced, visually stimulating films .
lewis made no - nonsense movies that drove right to the end ,
film historian and critic richard schickel said on learning of lewis' death .
lewis received the l. a. film critics assn. lifetime achievement award in 1997, honoring his 38 pictures made between 1937 and 1958 .
the rarely lauded director earned renewed attention in the 1960s from critics in the united states and france who had begun to look at directors as auteurs .
gun crazy ,
critic jay cocks and his friend and collaborator, director martin scorsese, wrote in the new york times some years ago ,
is a great movie that never set out to be one... . within the restrictions of a tough budget and an oppressively short shooting schedule, [ lewis ] helped expand our visual vocabulary .
that film, arguably lewis' finest work and the one he later told director peter bogdanovich was his favorite, was shot in 30 days in 1949 and cost $ 400, 000 to make .
the screenplay, by mackinley kantor and millard kaufman (then
fronting
for blacklisted screenwriter dalton trumbo) from a kantor magazine story, describes a couple who decide to rob a bank after pulling a series of small - time robberies .
the fast - paced film contains a dynamic sequence, shot in a realistic manner from the back seat of a stretch cadillac, following the couple, played by peggy cummins and john dall as they drive into town to pull the bank heist. scorsese and cocks called it
unrelenting ,
adding that improvised scenes of this type
literally pull the audience along with the actors and the action. they obliterate the separation between screen and spectator. there' s no more audience. there are only accomplices .
born in new york city, the son of an optometrist, lewis came to hollywood in the 1920s hoping to become an actor. his brother ben, then a film editor at metro goldwyn mayer, helped him get work at the studio as a camera loader. at a time when the industry was turning away from silent films, lewis joined his brother in the editing room learning how to put sound with moving pictures .
in the' 30s, he joined mascot films, which later became republic pictures, and became head of its editing department. he would later tell bogdanovich, however, that he did little editing, hiring instead the best editors in town at salaries that often eclipsed his .
by the mid - 1930s, lewis was directing b films for republic on tight schedules with low budgets. it was not uncommon to make a film in seven days and start another one the next day. he made westerns like
courage of the west ,
blazing six shooters
and
two - fisted rangers ,
working with such stars as fuzzy knight, johnny mack brown and bob baker .
in the' 40s, he proved himself capable of working in other b genres, directing such forgettable science fiction films as
the mad doctor of market street ,
and musicals like
the minstrel man .
lewis served in the army signal corps during world war ii, making instructional films including one on how to shoot the m - 1 rifle, which was shown well into the' 60s .
lewis worked steadily in hollywood through the years. one of his most noted film credits was
the jolson story ,
in which he directed all the musical numbers .
when the advent of television brought a decline in b film production, lewis switched to the small screen, directing episodes for
the rifleman ,
gunsmoke ,
the big valley ,
the dick powell show
and
the defenders .
i signed my name to every foot of film ,
lewis told bogdanovich, who included a lengthy interview with the director in his book of conversations with great filmmakers called
who the devil made it .
oh, a chance to express myself... . i' m innately an artist. but an artist without a diploma: i can' t play violin, i have no voice for singing, i' m not a poet, i can' t sketch, i can' t paint. what is there left for me to do... this wonderful means of expression .
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a new mainstream novel of the empire’s corps! after the disastrous mission to lakshmibai, the very existence of the commonwealth is called into question by politicians on avalon. but as the political firestorm mounts, a call for help arrives from thule, a highly - developed world facing a major insurgency in the wake of the empire’s collapse. reluctantly, the commonwealth de
this is one of these books were i feel that i need to reiterate that i am in no way a professional reviewer and do not aspire to be one. thus my ratings are heavily influenced by my personal tastes and i am afraid that this book wandered out of my comfort zone by quite some margin. we are back to avalon and the commonwealth’s struggle to rebuild and stabilize the region. unfortunately not all players share the visions of the leaders of avalon and the commonwealth. as a matter of fact, not all of
another installment of the main storyline of the series. this one picked up where book # 6 left off, with avalon reeling after the military fiasco that they got maneuvered into. but even as the politicians are marking out their places, ready to point fingers and denounce the military (in ways that we can' t get behind as readers), another, bigger threat to the commonwealth - - or at least one of its constituent planetary systems - - arises. and whether they like it or not, they have to respond. this
another installment of the main storyline of the series. this one picked up where book # 6 left off, with avalon reeling after the military fiasco that they got maneuvered into. but even as the politicians are marking out their places, ready to point fingers and denounce the military (in ways that we can' t get behind as readers), another, bigger threat to the commonwealth - - or at least one of its constituent planetary systems - - arises. and whether they like it or not, they have to respond. this time, the forces from avalon are in the position of trying to squelch a rebellion, instead of aiding and abetting one. worse, the leader appears to be someone with their own background (and a much abler adversary for it). but right when the fighting gets hot, a new player enters the picture - - the big bad that has been toying with the commonwealth for a couple books, now. and the fight between two new regional powers in the rim has begun. as other commenters have mentioned, this definitely has a
... to be continued
feel to it and if i' d been reading it before book # 10 had come out, i think i would have been extremely grumpy about the ending .
stalker and the marines are back on the commonwealth of avalon after the disaster on lakshmibai. this series needs to be read in order as it is written as one long story divided into installments. not too surprising our heroes fall into the traps set by admiral singh and rush to aid the world named thule. i am glad to see jasmine is still in - charge of the commonwealth forces. mandy is in charge of the avalon government, she was wounded after an assassination attempt. the commonwealth is at war wh
stalker and the marines are back on the commonwealth of avalon after the disaster on lakshmibai. this series needs to be read in order as it is written as one long story divided into installments. not too surprising our heroes fall into the traps set by admiral singh and rush to aid the world named thule. i am glad to see jasmine is still in - charge of the commonwealth forces. mandy is in charge of the avalon government, she was wounded after an assassination attempt. the commonwealth is at war which came as a surprise to everyone. our villain singh is leading the attack on avalon and commonwealth. thule has fallen to singh along with a large number of the commonwealth forces, jasmine and troops are now p. o. w. nuttall moves the story through his well developed characters. the book is full of action; lots of suspense as everything gets worse. this book like so many others ends in a cliff hanger. i read this as an audiobook downloaded from audible. jeffrey kafer continues to narrate the series .
no no no no - a cliff hanger ending - i call reader cruelty! !! this book is as exciting and enthralling as the rest of the series [ full of action ]. you are sucked into this world and the lives of our characters and heroes. however towards the end of the book i kept looking at percentage read [ 75% 85% 95% ] with my stress level increasing & my tummy knotted up with tension wondering when things were going to start working out for the good guys but things just kept getting worse (although the t
no no no no - a cliff hanger ending - i call reader cruelty! !! this book is as exciting and enthralling as the rest of the series [ full of action ]. you are sucked into this world and the lives of our characters and heroes. however towards the end of the book i kept looking at percentage read [ 75% 85% 95% ] with my stress level increasing & my tummy knotted up with tension wondering when things were going to start working out for the good guys but things just kept getting worse (although the title was a pretty big hint). hopefully christopher doesn' t keep us waiting too long for the next book in the series
the best laid plans
[ no pressure chris i guess it' s better to be good than quick ]. * * * added 26march14: with a bit of perspective i see that this story arc is getting too big to be dealt with appropriately [ and with the quality writing we' ve come to expect from this author ] in just one book .
i thought the title was a statement as so many of the titles in this series are. maybe it is meant to be a description; but i' m not so sure. that is as close to a spoiler as i' ll go. this series is getting so large in its characters and locals; i can see how difficult it must be keeping it all in one novel. this felt more like a chapter in the larger story than a complete novel unto itself. the characters are still interesting and the universe is enlightening but i feel this is the first and onl
i thought the title was a statement as so many of the titles in this series are. maybe it is meant to be a description; but i' m not so sure. that is as close to a spoiler as i' ll go. this series is getting so large in its characters and locals; i can see how difficult it must be keeping it all in one novel. this felt more like a chapter in the larger story than a complete novel unto itself. the characters are still interesting and the universe is enlightening but i feel this is the first and only book in the series that could not stand on its own .
this is the eighth book in author nuttall’s “the empire’s corps” series and is well worth reading. the plot of the series is believable as are the strategy and tactics employed by the characters. author nuttall is a professional writer, and the book shines with crisp dialogue. the often expressed philosophical comments by the characters could easily be found in today’s news. taking the time to read the entire series would be time well spent .
this series got a bit tedious a few books ago, this one is just yadda yadda blah blah zzzzzzzzzzzz... .
action packed awesomeness but the author helt back bridging to a possible story arc with last few books in the series... ah we' ll see. five stars
great series! a lot going on in this book. i like that the conflicts aren' t all wrapped up in bow at the end. quite a cliff hangar though !
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extraordinary challenges face the marines in korea, in w. e. b. griffin' s most electrifying corps novel yet. abridged * five cds * 6 hours
w. e. b. griffin is one of eight pseudonyms used by william e. butterworth iii, who was born on november 10, 1929 in newark, new jersey .
he enlisted in the u. s. army as a private in 1946 and underwent counterintelligence training at fort holabird. after assignment to the army of occupation in germany where he served on the staff of the commander of the u. s. constabulary, major general i. d. white, butterworth left the service in 1947, but rejoined and again served with white from 1951 to 1953 in korea. after leaving the service for the second time, butterworth remained in korea as a combat correspondent. he was later appointed chief of the publications division of the signal aviation test and support activity at the army aviation center in fort rucker, alabama. he received the brigadier general robert l. dening memorial distinguished service award of the u. s. marine corps combat correspondents association in 1991 and the veterans of foreign wars news media award in 1999 .
at first, he wrote fiction for young adults. he has written more than 125 books including the brotherhood of war series, the corps series, badge of honor series, honor bound series, presidential agent series, men at war series, and a clandestine operations novel series. he received the alabama author' s award in 1982 from the alabama library association .
in this tenth entry in griffin' s series about the marine corps in world war ii and korea (his 30th novel overall), it is fall 1950. mccoy, pickering, and the others are in the cia, sniffing out hints that the chinese communists will join the war. this puts them at odds with general macarthur' s intelligence people, who feel that such a thing is impossible. having served in korea and known many of the players, griffin has a solid knowledge of the material he presents here. like his other books, this one is formulaic and predictable, but his many fans will find it hugely entertaining; the americans are generally so good, so determined, and so skilled that one knows they will win. still, it should be noted that this book is slower going than its predecessors, as griffin focuses more on the politics rather than the action of the korean war. for larger fiction collections. [ previewed in prepub alert, lj 9 / 1 / 03. ] - robert conroy, warren, mi (c) copyright 2010. library journals llc, a wholly owned subsidiary of media source, inc. no redistribution permitted .
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a bunch of husky guys in battle - green who showed the world you can' t stop a marine .
having never served in the armed services, the film offered an interesting window into war life but i' ve seen so many better movies on the subject that this one offered little substance beyond the aforementioned action scenes. the film could have ended on a down beat note, but no, genre conventions dictate that the marines…
pretty much a recruiting tool for the us marine corp, but as far as recruiting movies go, it' s a pretty solid war effort. a bit of depth to the characters, some remarkably tense action scenes make this rise above what would otherwise be jingoistic fare .
korean - era propaganda film that' s chockfull of cliches and one long recruiting commercial for the marines but is still fast paced and gets the war action job done. limited star power is provided by richard carlson, a super gung - ho frank lovejoy and an incredibly young russ tamblyn. probably enjoyable for war film junkies only .
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ntelligence of attack plots across europe is being uncovered as islamic state’s caliphate is beaten back, the top british officer in the military coalition fighting the extremists has disclosed .
a trove of information has already been found and the capture of the iraqi city of mosul is expected to deliver more on the plans, finances and members of islamic state in iraq and levant (isil) .
maj gen rupert jones warned there were “no quick answers” in the fight to liberate iraq’s second city, which has now entered its second month .
e also appeared to challenge donald trump’s campaign trail suggestions that the coalition was not aggressive enough against the extremist movement also known as daesh .
maj gen jones, who is second in command of the us - led coalition, spoke as the telegraph visited more than 250 british troops recently sent to al asad air base in western iraq where they are training iraqi troops to fight the militants .
the volume of intelligence being found is so large the coalition has set up a lab in the gulf to plunder militants’ laptops, phones and drives for their secrets and then pass them to intelligence agencies .
, he said. but he warned the militants would still be able to direct plots while they remained in their capital, raqqa .
maj gen jones said: “manbij was hugely important for external operations. a huge amount of intelligence gathered in manbij related to threats in europe and elsewhere. what we are now in the process of doing is starting the isolation of raqqa .
“for as long as raqqa is sitting there, they can orchestrate external operations. so the sooner it’s liberated or the sooner daesh are liberated from there, the better. ”
e went on: “the reason we are all here is because daesh has demonstrated it poses a threat to our way of life. it’s demonstrated very effectively what it can do in europe and elsewhere. ”
heavy fighting continues in mosul where iraqi security forces began an assault to drive out isil nearly six weeks ago .
maj gen jones said: “i am absolutely certain that an extraordinary amount of intelligence will come out of mosul. we have ramped up as a coalition our ability to gather and process all that intelligence, because it will be a labyrinth of intelligence and we need to get that into the hands of intelligence agencies. ”
retreat , hell ! is a 1952 american war film about the 1st marine division in the korean war , directed by joseph h. lewis . it stars frank lovejoy as a career marine battalion commander who is recalled from work at an american embassy , richard carlson as a veteran captain and communications specialist of world war ii called up from the marine corps reserves , russ tamblyn as a seventeen-year-old private who hides his true age to serve with the unit overseas and outdo his older brother , also a marine , and nedrick young ( credited as ned young ) . also appearing in the film is peter julien ortiz , a highly decorated marine who served in the office of strategic services ( oss ) and appeared in various films after retiring from the military . 
retreat, hell! is a 1952 american war film about the 1st marine division in the korean war, directed by joseph h. lewis. it stars frank lovejoy as a career marine battalion commander who is recalled from work at an american embassy, richard carlson as a veteran captain and communications specialist of world war ii called up from the marine corps reserves, russ tamblyn as a seventeen-year-old private who hides his true age to serve with the unit overseas and outdo his older brother, also a marine, and nedrick young (credited as ned young). also appearing in the film is peter julien ortiz, a highly decorated marine who served in the office of strategic services (oss) and appeared in various films after retiring from the military.
retreat, hell! is a 1952 american war film about the 1st marine division in the korean war, directed by joseph h. lewis. it stars frank lovejoy as a career marine battalion commander who is recalled from work at an american embassy, richard carlson as a veteran captain and communications specialist of world war ii called up from the marine corps reserves, russ tamblyn as a seventeen-year-old private who hides his true age to serve with the unit overseas and outdo his older brother, also a marine, and nedrick young (credited as ned young). also appearing in the film is peter julien ortiz, a highly decorated marine who served in the office of strategic services (oss) and appeared in various films after retiring from the military.