Robert Olmstead’s ‘Graceful, Grave’ Book Reviewed in Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ohio Wesleyan University professor Robert Olmstead’s newest book, “The Coldest Night,” is reviewed April 2 in The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.
Book editor Karen R. Long writes: “The cold in this night is the cold of the Korean War, specifically the 17-day battle of Chosin Reservoir, where temperatures dropped to 35 degrees below zero. The cold deadened radio batteries and killed off the wounded. Medics found themselves ‘carrying morphine syrettes in their cheeks so they would not freeze.’ ”
She describes Olmstead’s approach to language as “never short of reverent.”
Read the complete Plain Dealer article here.
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