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Battleground: The Corps
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780515106404
ISBN: 0515106402
Label: Jove
Manufacturer: Jove
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: September 01, 1991
Publisher: Jove
Studio: Jove
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Editorial Review:
In this electrifying novel of the U.S. Marine Corps, the master of authentic military action and drama reveals the story of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Pacific: the epic struggle for Guadalcanal.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A Grand Story!
This fourth book in Griffin's Corps series is a stunner. The actual time of the book is actually quite short. The book runs from June 4 - August 24, 1942. It was during this time that the Americans invaded Guadalcanal, and Griffin's version of this bloody battle in the Solomon Islands is a page turner. We also get to know Griffin's main characters really well. People like Fleming Pickering, Charley Galloway and many others. This book has lots of characters and I think it would be hard to keep ... Read More
Rating:  - The Corps
This is not a good portrayal of the Corps. It glamorizes China Marines from the 3os, ultra-wealthy officers flaunting Marine discipline, excessive romatic encounters and little of the hard slogging by WWII Marines. The entire book is about Marine intelligence which is of some interest but not really the "Battleground" of the title.
Rating:  - False Advertising
Great book but what Amazon is advertising as the unabridged audio cassette edition is really the heavily abridged edition. Two 1-hour cassettes vs 18 hours for the unabrdged edition... Go figure! I feel just a tad raped...
Rating: - A Waste of Time
I picked up these books hoping to gain some insight into the actions of the Marine Corps in the Pacific during World War II. What I found instead was a sort of soap opera that rambles on for hundreds of pages without getting around to much actual fighting. For example, The Marines don't even get to Guadalcanal (their first major offensive) until the end of book III, some 1200 pages into the story. Those 1200 intervening pages are mostly conversations (ad nauseam) between stateside Marine Corps officers ... Read More
Rating: - Vintage WEB Griffin!
In this volume of the Corps saga , we see several of the characters introduced in "Counterattack" elevated to new prominence. Newly promoted Captain Charley Galloway becomes the commanding officer of VMF 229 , and along with Bily Dunn sets about preparing the young squadron to be thrown into the cauldron of Guadalcanal. Flem Pickering continues to grow in importance to the ongoing tale of incredible heroisim exhibited by the young Marines thrown into bloody conflict.
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