The world is at peace in the summer of 1950. For the men of one Marine Corps platoon, their only enemies are boredom and the vagrancies of officers. Cussler, the lieutenant, is plagued with uncertainty in the shadow of another. Reese, the quiet sergeant, knows the horrors that lie ahead. Hogan, takes nothing serious until the quiet Melissa enters his world in a swirl of dark beauty. Goldstein, is running from the bigotry of his past, and Moore embraces his. The Professor, Doc Lowe, Henderson and Sullivan, and all the others only combat the daily tedium of training, and the nightly vacancy of the lonely. June 25th, it all changed. Soon, the men of the scout platoon will find themselves in an all too real war. Caught up in a meat grinder of battle in a war no one wants, in a place no one knows. In a distant place called Korea. From the rubble-strewn streets of a burnt out Seoul, to the frozen hills of Chosin, they will discover the tragedy of, and triumph over war. Where dreams are meaningless, a friend's trust is the best weapon, and survival is the only hope.