Close Combat (The Corps, Book 6)

by W.E.B. Griffin

1993

Status

Available

Publication

G.P. Putnam's Sons (1993), Edition: First Edition, 416 pages

Description

Fiction. Literature. Thriller. HTML: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

User reviews

LibraryThing member utbw42

Enjoyable, 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...

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LibraryThing member buffalogr

The 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.

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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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