Close Combat, W.E.B. Griffin
Close Combat, W.E.B. Griffin
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Close Combat

Author: W.E.B. Griffin

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 15 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2013

Synopsis

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 Washington, D.C., the warriors, plus the wives and sweethearts who love them, once more find themselves facing the challenges of their lives...

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 Keith on November 21, 2020

Even when I'm annoyed Griffin's writing just drags me along from cover to cover. Close Combat is a bit disingenuous of a title. Not much combat is covered in the book. Guadalcanal, one of the bloodiest battlegrounds of WW2 is neatly glossed over. The Japanese are building up their forces then we mea......more

Goodreads review by Gilbert on March 10, 2022

This is another excellent volume in The Corp series, following marine aviators, infantry, and press corps as they return to the states from the fighting on Guadalcanal. On the one hand, this book is clearly setting up the next which will focus on contacting guerillas in the Philippines and the tensi......more

Goodreads review by David on February 21, 2021

Close Combat is the sixth title in the Corps series. I have to admit, it gets better. Griffin still doesn't spend enough time with the actual action- preferring to emphasize the politics and traditions of the Corps-- the womanizing and drinking... He spends more time trying to set up a character to......more

Goodreads review by Bob on March 23, 2015

I fell in love with Griffin's series about the Corps and have read all his awesome works. I can't recall reading a more engaging series with characters all so rich and colorful each of them could be an awesome novel of their own. But Griffin smashes them all together into one nuclear story. Amazingly......more

Goodreads review by Delia on March 04, 2021

Pretty much, See my Review of THE CORPS, #2: Call to Arms. Most of the characters are the same, it's just a year later in WW2, and mainly involves a war bonds tour of the US that Malcolm "Pick" Pickering, William C. Dunn, and Thomas "Machine Gun" McCoy (series hero Ken "Killer" McCoy's kid brother,......more

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