Counterattack
No one captures the drama of war as brilliantly as bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin. The Corps is his multi-volume portrait of the Marine Corps, the brave men and women who fought, loved and died in the sweeping turmoil of WW II.
No one captures the drama of war as brilliantly as bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin. The Corps is his multi-volume portrait of the Marine Corps, the brave men and women who fought, loved and died in the sweeping turmoil of WW II.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780515104172 (0515104175)
ASIN: 515104175
Publish date: September 1st 1990
Publisher: Jove
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Military,
Thriller,
World War II,
Action
Series: The Corps (#3)
This book just missed being one of my five-star classics. I loved the way Griffin took his well-developed characters and put them right in the middle of WWII from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal with his usual direct prose and eye for military procedural detail. What's really exciting is that this serie...
Counterattack overlaps in time with the events in book 2, but from different characters' points of view. Instead of spending time with Pick and McCoy, we spend time with the higher ranks in the Corps and Navy, and also gain some outside perspective on MacArthur during his time in Australia. Interes...