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Audiobook15 hours
Close Combat
Written by W.E.B. Griffin
Narrated by Dick Hill
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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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. First Lieutenant William Dunn, twenty-one years old but already one of the only two pilots remaining from his fighter squadron's original sixteen, must learn what it is like to lead men - and to lose them.
Hot-tempered Sergeant Thomas McCoy finds he has a hero's welcome waiting stateside - if he can avoid a court-martial first.
On a bloody island, Major Jake Dillon discovers just how much combat is involved in a combat correspondent's life.
First Lieutenant R.B. Macklin, a consummate bully, is put on a War Bond tour so he will not endanger his own men.
General Fleming Pickering, on a ticklish diplomatic mission, attempts to balance the hot and mighty temperaments of General Douglas MacArthur, OSS Chief William "Wild Bill" Donovan and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.
Corporal Robert Easterbrook, still wet behind the ears, discovers that the price of success in wartime may be uncomfortably high.
From the Solomons to Australia to Washington, D.C., the warriors, plus the wives and sweethearts who love them, once more find themselves with the challenges of their lives...
Hot-tempered Sergeant Thomas McCoy finds he has a hero's welcome waiting stateside - if he can avoid a court-martial first.
On a bloody island, Major Jake Dillon discovers just how much combat is involved in a combat correspondent's life.
First Lieutenant R.B. Macklin, a consummate bully, is put on a War Bond tour so he will not endanger his own men.
General Fleming Pickering, on a ticklish diplomatic mission, attempts to balance the hot and mighty temperaments of General Douglas MacArthur, OSS Chief William "Wild Bill" Donovan and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.
Corporal Robert Easterbrook, still wet behind the ears, discovers that the price of success in wartime may be uncomfortably high.
From the Solomons to Australia to Washington, D.C., the warriors, plus the wives and sweethearts who love them, once more find themselves with the challenges of their lives...
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W.E.B. Griffin
W.E.B. Griffin is the author of six bestselling series—and now Clandestine Operations. William E. Butterworth IV has worked closely with his father for more than a decade, and is the coauthor with him of many books, most recently Hazardous Duty and Top Secret.
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Reviews for Close Combat
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Griffin is a master storyteller. He grabs your interest from the first page and never let's go. His characters are real and you come to love the heroes and hate the villains. This is at least the fourth time I have started reading the series. I highly recommend you become acquainted with this author. You will not be disappointed.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyable, if not quite up to the high standards set by its five predecessors, this one read more like "these are the Days Of Our Corps". I get the feeling that Griffin intended this to be more of a set up novel for the last four, as the reader now knows that Killer McCoy is now going to the Phillipines in the near future to meet a Marine to set up guerilla tactics in Mindinao. Everyone else ended up on a Marine hero recruitment parade. Anxious to see where the author takes those characters...
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The story continues. And...it just seems to go on and on and on. After some hero battles, several heroes end up in USMC bond drive. All Griffin's books are great and this one's no different. There's an added character or two and a minimum of combat action. Seems like everyone is getting commissioned after a good performance. There are some good drunks, which I attribute to combat stress. On to Corps #7.