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Bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin's epic sixth novel in THE CORPS series—a powerful, dramatic tribute to the courageous men and women who braved WWII.As Japanese forces close in for an all-out effort to recapture Guadalcanal from the American forces occupying the island, many fates converge and intertwine, finding Captain Charles Galloway, Major Jake Dillon, Sergeant Thomas McCoy and China Marine Killer McCoy in dramatic arenas all over the Pacific.
From the Solomons to Australia to show more Washington, D.C., the warriors, plus the wives and sweethearts who love them, once more find themselves facing the challenges of their lives... show less
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Griffin is a master storyteller. He grabs your interest from the first page and never let's go. His characters are real and you come to love the heroes and hate the villains. This is at least the fourth time I have started reading the series. I highly recommend you become acquainted with this author. You will not be disappointed.
Enjoyable, if not quite up to the high standards set by its five predecessors, this one read more like "these are the Days Of Our Corps". I get the feeling that Griffin intended this to be more of a set up novel for the last four, as the reader now knows that Killer McCoy is now going to the Phillipines in the near future to meet a Marine to set up guerilla tactics in Mindinao. Everyone else ended up on a Marine hero recruitment parade. Anxious to see where the author takes those characters...
The story continues. And...it just seems to go on and on and on. After some hero battles, several heroes end up in USMC bond drive. All Griffin's books are great and this one's no different. There's an added character or two and a minimum of combat action. Seems like everyone is getting commissioned after a good performance. There are some good drunks, which I attribute to combat stress. On to Corps #7.
Outstanding, one of the better books in the series so far.
Great book
First edition fine
Griffins sjätte roman om den amerikanske marinkåren före och under andra världskriget håller minst lika hög standard som de tidigare. Tidsmässigt utspelar sig den framför allt under slaget om Guadalcanal (slutet av 1942), men som vanligt fokuserar Griffin mer på personöden och händelserna runtom än på själva striderna. Särskilt intressant är hans framställning av hur en War Bond Tour gick till, när veteraner och filmstjärnor reste runt USA för att sälja krigsobligationer och öka rekryteringen till militären.
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W. E. B. Griffin is one of eight pseudonyms used by William E. Butterworth III, who was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 10, 1929. He enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private in 1946 and was assigned to the Army of Occupation in Germany. He left the service in 1947 but was recalled to active duty in 1951 because of the Korean War. After show more leaving the service for the second time, he remained in Korea as a combat correspondent. He was later appointed chief of the publications division of the Signal Aviation Test and Support Activity at the Army Aviation Center in Fort Rucker, Alabama. He received the Brigadier General Robert L. Dening Memorial Distinguished Service Award of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association in 1991 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars News Media Award in 1999. He wrote more than 200 books including the Brotherhood of War series, The Corps series, Badge of Honor series, Honor Bound series, Presidential Agent series, Men at War series, and A Clandestine Operations Novel series. Under his own name, he wrote 12 sequels in the 1970s to Richard Hooker's book M*A*S*H. His other pen names included Alex Baldwin, Webb Beech, and Walter E. Blake. He wrote over 20 books with his son William E. Butterworth IV. He received the Alabama Author's Award in 1982 from the Alabama Library Association. He died on February 12, 2019 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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The Corps, Books 2-9 (Call to Arms, Counterattack, Battleground, Line of Fire, Close Combat, Behind the Lines, In Danger's Path, Under Fire) by W.E.B. Griffin
The Corps, Books 1, 4-9 (Semper Fi, Battleground, Line of Fire, Close Combat, Behind the Lines, in Dangers Path, Under Fire) by W.E.B. Griffin
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- Canonical title
- Close Combat
- Original title
- Close Combat
- Original publication date
- 1993
- People/Characters
- Kenneth R. '[The] Killer' McCoy; Ernest Zimmerman; Fleming Pickering; Malcolm S. 'Pick' Pickering; Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army; Alexander Archer Vandegrift, Commandant of the Marine Corps
- Dedication
- THE CORPS is respectfully dedicated to the memory of
Second Lieutenant Drew James Barrett, III, USMC
Company K, 3rd Battlion, 26th Marines
Born Denver, Co, 3 Jan 1945
Died Quang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam... (show all), 27 Feb 1969
and
Major Alfred Lee Butler, III, USMC
Headquarters 22 Marine Amphibious Unit
Born Washington DC, 4 Sept 1950
Died Beirut, Lebanon, 8 February 1984
And to the memory of
Donald L Schomp
Marine Fighter Pilot who became a legendary US Army Master
Aviator
R.I.P. 9 April 1989
"Semper Fi!" - First words
- First Lieutnant William Charles Dunn, USMCR, glanced up at the Pagoda through the scarred Plexiglas windshield of his battered, mud-splattered, bullet-holed Grumman F4F4 Wildcat.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Behind him, the black plastic bobbed in the bathtub.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3557 .R489137 .C68 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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