The winter of 1951 was a particularly cold and miserable one for those brave soldiers fighting in the hills overlooking the Chowan Valley of Korea. For Army Infantry Master Sergeant Anthony Blondell, the challenge was not only to stay alive, but to keep his men alive as well while trying to accomplish the mission: holding on to Hill 355 at all costs. Through the freezing rain and snow, hip-deep mud and punishing enemy fire, Sergeant Blondell and his men did as they were ordered, but not without loss.

This is Anthony Blondell's harrowing and sometimes amusing tale of the internal and external battles he fought while soldiering for his newly adopted, beloved country. Though not the last war he would fight as a soldier in the United States Army, the Korean War would prove to be a turning point in both his personal life and his military career.