Sides is a very good author - made this highly interesting (it's a great story so didn't need much build).
I don't know much about the Korean war so it's helpful as to the early stages of the conflict.
Douglas MacArthur does not come off well in this telling, and I think that's the consensus of folks who are knowledgeable about this.
Sides introduces various of the key soldiers and officers, describes the incredible bravery under horrible winter conditions. Sympathetic to Chinese soldiers who quite often were so poorly equipped - both for fighting and for surviving the weather.
The Chinese did have lots of bodies and no qualms about expending them - US soldiers fighting off literal hordes, corpses stack up in the cold.
Also some impressive engineering feats - to get an air strip ready to go in an isolated area, to fix a crossing. Ingenuity.
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