Battleground, W.E.B. Griffin
Battleground, W.E.B. Griffin
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Battleground

Author: W.E.B. Griffin

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 18 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2012

Synopsis

W.E.B. Griffin is a bestselling phenomenom, an American master of authentic military action and drama!Now, in this electrifying novel, he reveals the story of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Pacific, the epic struggle for Guadalcanal...Daredevil pilot Charles Galloway learns the hard way how to command a fighter squadron. Lt. Joe Howard teams up with the Coastwatchers. Jack "No Middle Initial" Stecker leads his infantry battalion into the thickest of fighting, at a terrible price. And Navy Captain Pickering grabs a helmet and rifle to join the ranks at Guadalcanal...

About W.E.B. Griffin

W. E. B. Griffin is also the author of the bestselling Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, and Honor Bound series. He has been invested into the orders of St. George of the U.S. Armor Association and St. Andrew of the U.S. Army Aviation Association, and is a life member of the U.S. Special Operations Association; Gaston-Lee Post 5660, Veterans of Foreign Wars; China Post #1 in Exile of the American Legion; and the Police Chiefs Association of Southeast Pennsylvania, South New Jersey, and Delaware. He is an honorary life member of the U.S. Army Otter & Caribou Association, the U.S. Army Special Forces Association, the U.S. Marine Corps Raider Association, and the USMC Combat Correspondents Association.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob

W.E.B. Griffin aka Bill Butterworth was a veteran who wrote several excellent military series. He was also kind of enough years ago to give an unknown author a blurb for their first novel-- my first book Eyes of the Hammer......more

Goodreads review by Jim

I wrote in my review of the last book I read in The Corps series that I would stop reading them for awhile, because I have a life. I couldn't do it. I seem to be addicted to stately prose and good storytelling. But I assumed that I would move on to after the Chinese came into the war. I was wrong. T......more

Goodreads review by David

Another thrilling entry in the Corps series, maybe the best one yet...and that's saying a lot. An eye-opening account of the early days of the war in the Pacific.......more

Goodreads review by Gilbert

In the last book in this series, Griffin brought the corps to Guadalcanal, but he did so in large brush strokes mostly from an eagle-eyed view. In Battleground, he retraces some of that territory from his characteristic boots-level perspective, going over the lightning preparations for the invasion......more

Goodreads review by Mark

The history of WWII in the Pacific continues from the eyes of various Marines from Coastwatcher's, aviators, G-2 operators, grunts, close advisors to the Administration and their loves...The dysfunctional inter-service rivalries are on full display as Griffin continues the stories of the early years......more

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