Close Combat (Corps Series #6)

by W. E. B. Griffin

Overview

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...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780515112696
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/01/1993
Series:	Corps , #6
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	85,712
Product dimensions:	4.26(w) x 6.77(h) x 1.11(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

W. E. B. Griffin was the author of seven bestselling series: The Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, Presidential Agent, and Clandestine Operations. He passed away in February 2019.

Hometown:

Coppell, Texas

Date of Birth:

November 10, 1929

Place of Birth:

Newark, New Jersey

What People are Saying About This

Tom Clancy

Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition, probably the best man around for describing the military community.

Editorial Reviews

Set in 1942, the sixth book (following Line of Fire ) in Griffin's series about The Corps revolves around a war bond tour featuring Marine heroes of the Guadalcanal campaign. Series fans will recognize the central characters, among them Marine general and presidential troubleshooter Fleming Pickering, his fighter pilot son Pick, and movie mogul Homer Dillon, a Marine for the duration. Griffin has Marine Corps lore and trivia down pat, and he uses the bond-tour story line to convey the public-relations aspects of modern war. Essentially, however, the novel succeeds because the alcoholic and amorous exploits of its stateside heroes could be mink-lined wish fulfillment for the fantasies of the average soldier--most of the ``close combat'' here takes place in various bedrooms. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Griffin's soap opera series, dedicated to the semper fi Marines of the Pacific War, continues with this sequel to chronicle number V ("Line of Fire", ). The calendar is advanced one month, to October 1942, but the places remain familiar: Guadalcanal, Brisbane, Pearl Harbor, various Stateside bases. In such places the strands of the plot are laid, pitting stock characters in battles exclusively over leatherneck mannerisms and military protocol, because, believe it or don't, there is but one, and only one, guns-blazing, planes-crashing, ships-sinking war scene in the entire script. If 99 percent of war is the boredom of waiting for something to happen, this certainly meets the standard of versimilitude. For the characters--whose stations range from a lowly combat photographer to middling brass hats right up to Dr. Win-the-War himself, President Roosevelt--do one thing that rings of truth: they talk (and talk) in a military argot that is bawdy when in the bar and punctilious when addressing higher ranks. Many patrons would consign such pablum to the flames, but Griffin's prolifigacy in writing war fiction--this is his eighteenth book--reflects a certain level of popularity.

Gilbert Taylor