The Majors, W.E.B. Griffin
The Majors, W.E.B. Griffin
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The Majors

Author: W.E.B. Griffin

Narrator: Eric G. Dove

Unabridged: 11 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2012

Synopsis

Dien Bien Phu. Saigon. Hanoi. In 1954, they were only exotic names from a French campaign halfway around the world. But now American fighting men—proven on the bloody beaches of Normandy and in the minefields of Korea—are summoned to help beat back the guerilla forces of Ho Chi Minh. To some, the "secret" war in Indochina was the depth of folly. To others, like the Majors, it pointed to the heights of glory...

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 Michał on May 01, 2022

The story concenues with lying banana helicopter developed to cary troops and used by french in Algieria, used in the dual role of assault transport and medical evacuation.And with a few of our heroes being air dropped into Dien Bien Phu. 108 helicopters were delivered to the French army. Became the f......more

Goodreads review by Keith on June 08, 2020

Another return to old friends. Lowell and Felter are majors. Felter is somewhat downplayed in this novel having very little story dedicated to him and even Craig Lowell while not taking a backseat does share a lot of the book with Ed Greer a former sergeant, former warrant officer now a lieutenant a......more

Goodreads review by Ridel on November 13, 2023

Morally Hazardous The Majors opens with Americans supporting the French in the First Indochina War, but unlike its predecessors, these world events are practically irrelevant to the plot. Concerned solely with the careers of the returning cast, these misfits are good people, but their flaws resul......more

Goodreads review by Thom on August 01, 2013

Probably no time in history has been as advantageous for military careers as that following the Second World War. Young officers and men entered the services to fight a war and upon its conclusion the world and the position of the United States in that world had changed forever. The balance of world......more

Goodreads review by Bryan on December 18, 2020

The story continues. Includes the development of weaponizing helicopters.......more

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