Counterattack (The Corps Book 3)

by W.E.B. Griffin

1990

Status

Available

Publication

G.P. Putnam's Sons (1990), Edition: Reissue, 512 pages

Description

Fiction. Thriller. Historical Fiction. 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.

Media reviews

Publishers Weekly

The Corps combines the best elements of military history and the war story.

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San Antonio Express-News

Griffin is...the best storyteller of this or just about any other adventure genre in today's market.

User reviews

LibraryThing member utbw42

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

series is just starting to hit its stride. On to the next one....

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LibraryThing member buffalogr

I enjoy this series and Counterattack (#3 of 10) is excellent, also. Griffin weaves the fictional characters into real world events, fiction interacting with reality. The (boring)battle scenes are minimized, but well told. Most of the story is told through the eyes of CAPT Fleming Pickering, former

CEO of a successful shipping line, who is SECNAV's liaison to McArthur. Through Pickering's reports, we learn about big picture concerns, including Army-Navy infighting that made our military less effective. Love interests? There are several and they pervade the book and the series. Much of this story is dedicated to development of the USMC coast watchers and parachute Marines, two special capabilities that contributed to the war, but weren't USMC core capabilities. Fun read, where's #4?

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LibraryThing member DocWalt10

Griffin 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.

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