Hampton Sides is an award-winning editor of Outside and the author of the bestselling histories In the Kingdom of Ice, Hellhound on His Trail, Blood and Thunder, and Ghost Soldiers, which won the PEN Award for Nonfiction. A past fellow of the Santa Fe Institute, he teaches narrative non-fiction at Colorado College. His latest book, On Desperate Ground: The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, Legendary Clash of the Korean War (Doubleday) is a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War. While expertly detailing the follies of the American leaders, On Desperate Ground is an immediate, grunt’s-eye view of history, enthralling in its narrative pace and powerful in its portrayal of what ordinary men are capable of in the most extreme circumstances.
