Call to Arms

Historical fiction. Ken McCoy is brought back to the US following the outbreak of World War II. He debriefs several Marine intelligence officers and is granted an assignment to the Officer Training Course on the recommendation of an intelligence officer that he met in China. He also learns how to ho......more

The story of the 2d Raider Bn's Makin Island raid, and the lead up to it, told with the usual cast of The Corps. It's an amazing story brilliantly told. I really got hooked by these Corps books, to the detriment of a lot of stuff I should be doing Don't start them unless you have time, because they......more

Ken “Killer” McCoy and his fellow marines return in the second volume of The Corps series as Griffin chronicles the Marine Corps trying to rapidly bring itself up to war footing after Pearl Harbor. All the characters from the last book return. Banning is blind; Pickering is in flight school; and McC......more

American World War II action — both at home and in the Pacific — from December 1941 through August 1942. The non-fiction prolog is critical to understanding much of the dialog in the novel. A military theorist having presidential pull results in the creation and use of special forces of the U.S. Cor......more

I'm only giving this three stars. I've mentioned in other reviews and I'm standing by it here as well. I don't like fractured story telling. You become interested and invested in Character A, they're interesting and have. . . oops, now you're reading about Character B, somewhere else doing something......more