Full name: Cold Ground's Been My Bed: A Korean War Memoir

Author: Daniel Wolfe Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads ISBNs: 9780595341351 0595341357

Dan Wolfe was a Bronx, New York, teenager whose passions were baseball, fooling around in school, and hanging out at the candy store in the 1940s. In 1951, three years out of high school, he was drafted and sent to Korea. Cold Ground's Been My Bed is his no-holds-barred memoir of the experience, from his deployment into Company L, 15th Regt, 3rd division; a frontline infantry platoon. The title of his book is derived from a blues song sung by his first bunker buddy. It speaks to the conditions experienced by soldiers when suddenly faced with the reality of war. In recounting his story, Dan never pretends to be more than he was, a young man being shocked and shaped by the reality of war.