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Twenty books, ten years, one every six months. A list you can actually finish, with the mature-content flags nobody else bothers to give you.

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Frozen Chosin and the War America Agreed to Forget

Five months after a beaten battalion tried to stop tanks with bad rockets, 30,000 men walked out of a Korean valley at 30 below. Most of them made it.

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