Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action Korea, Spring, 1953

General Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, 1900-1977, American author and military analyst was born in Catskill, N.Y. Having served in world war I, he embarked upon a career in journalsim, working as an editorial writer and military critic for the Detroit News. In world War II he was chief combat historian in the Central Pacific (1943) and chief historian for the European Theater of Operations (1945) and during the Korean War was an infantry operations analyst for the U.S. army, with the rank of brigadier general. Marshall developed several systems to analyze infantry performance in battle. Among his many works are Blitzkrieg (1940); Armies on Wheels (1941); Men against Fire (1947); The River and the Gauntlet (1953); Pork Chop Hill (1956); Sinai Victory (1958); Night Drop (1962); and Crimsoned Prairie (1972).