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After the epic struggle of World War II, W.E.B. Griffin’s bestselling chronicle of the Marine Corps enters a new stage of modern warfare—with new weapons, new strategies, and a new breed of warrior—on the battlefields of Korea...In 1950, Captain Ken McCoy’s report on North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that he is promptly booted out of the Corps—and just as promptly picked up by the fledgling CIA. Soon, his predictions come true: on June 25th the show more North Koreans invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately veterans scattered throughout military and civilian life are called up, many with only seventy-two hours notice. For these men and their families, names such as Inchon and Pusan will acquire a new, bloody reality—and become their greatest challenge of all... show less
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WWII is over and "Killer" McCoy is ostracized for an honest evaluation of the threat of communist North Korea invading South Korea. Once a Marine, always a Marine as McCoy, Pickering, Hart, Zimmerman, and an important cast of others are brought back into the Semper Fi fold to first bring McCoy back into the good graces of the U.S Marines, then work skillfully with President Truman and around the military genius of Douglas MacArthur to head off a potential long conflict through an invasion of Inchon. Griffin once again proves that he is one of the masters of military fiction as this one keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very end. I am continually amazed at how human Griffin makes the important players in this game seem.
The Semper Fi cast is back for the Korean War. I listened on the edge of my seat. Although some of the verbiage is redundant and reviews the story from the first eight books, one quickly gets over that and into a Special ops plot that is a cliff hanger at the end. Again, the intertwining of national political characters with very tactical stories is one of Griffen's best traits. One more book to go and it's finis for the Corps.
Outstanding story that draws from the previous book without rehashing. Kept my interest though out, better then most of the WEB Griffin war saga novels.
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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
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2002
- People/Characters
- Kenneth R. '[The] Killer' McCoy; Malcolm S. Pickering; Ernie Zimmerman; Fleming Pickering; Ed Banning; George Hart (show all 13); Brigadier General Clyde W. Dawkins, USMC; Lieutenant Colonel William C. Dunn, USMC; Douglas MacArthur (General U.S.A. army); Lieutenant General Walton H. "Johnny" Walker, U.S.A.; Lieutenant General Richard Sutherland, U.S.A.; Jeanette Priestly; Captain Arthur McGowan, USMC
- Important places
- Pusan, South Korea; Haneda Airfield, Tokyo, Japan; Tokyo, Japan; Camp Pendleton, California, USA; Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, USA; North Island Naval Air Station, San Diego, California, U.S.A. (show all 9); Washington, D.C., USA; Charleston, South Carolina, USA; Taegu, Korea
- Important events
- Korean War (1950 | 1953)
- Dedication
- The Corps is respectfully dedicated to the memory of
Second Lieutenant Drew James Barrett III, USMC
Company K, 3d Battalion, 26th Marines
&nbs... (show all)p; Born Denver, Colorado, 3 January 1945
Died Quang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam
27 February 1969
and
Major Alfred Lee Butler, III, USMC
Headquarters 22nd Marine Amphibious Unit
Born Washington, D.C., 4 September 1950
Died Beirut, Lebanon, 8 February 1980
And to the Memory of Donald L. Schomp
A Marine Fighter Pilot Who Became a
Legendary U.S. Army Master Aviator
RIP 9 April 1989
"SEMPER FI!" - First words
- In 1944, Vice President Henry A. Wallace was perceived by many - perhaps most - highly placed Democrats to be a genuine threat to the reelection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then they drank, and their talk turned once more to war.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PS3557 .R489137 .U53 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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