By Kevin Seabrooke
Seventy-five years after that deadly winter in Korea in 1950, a former Washington Post military correspondent and historian sets out to uncover what really happened at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir and the fate of the U.S. Army’s 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT)—part of 20,000 Marines and Soldiers overrun by 150,000 Communist Chinese soldiers. Of the 3,200 American and Korean soldiers in the 31st RTC, more than 80 percent were killed, captured, or wounded. Following the conflict, they were accused of surrendering and faking wounds.
Vogel was part of a Post reporting team nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for its reporting on the U.S. war in Afghanistan. In addition to being embedded with an Army airborne brigade in Iraq in 2003, he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War, as well as military operations in Somalia, Rwanda, and the Balkans.
A Task Force Called Faith: The Untold Story of the U.S. Army Soldiers Who Fought for Survival at Chosin Reservoir—and Honor Back Home (Steve Vogel, Lyons Press/dist. Simon & Schuster, 500 pp., Nov. 25, 2025 $39.95 HC)
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