Type of bind: Hardcover
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Label: Putnam
Manufacturer: Putnam
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Page Count: 512
Printing Date: January 05, 2004
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Extraordinary challenges face the Marines in Korea, in W. E. B. Griffin's most electrifying Corps novel yet.
It is the fall of 1950. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them. The bit in his teeth, MacArthur surges across the 38th parallel toward the Yalu River, only to encounter the Chinese in full force, who drive him back in turn. Back and forth, the bloody tides of war shift, and swept along with them are Captain Ken McCoy and Master Gunner Ernie Zimmerman, caught in the fight of their lives; Brigadier General Fleming Pickering, working desperately to mediate the escalating battle between MacArthur and Truman; and Pickering's daredevil pilot son, Malcolm, lost somewhere behind enemy lines-and maybe lost forever.
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I think W.E.B Griffin(his real name is William E. Butterworth)is the best current day writer. I highly recommend this and all of his other books. This book is number 10 of 10 in the Corps series
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W. E. B. Griffin is a master at combining historic facts and fully fleshed out fictional characters.
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Mr.Griffin did the superb job creating the characters who are very likable and well put idiots/villains for couter effect.
I always enjoyed the good war novels, especially stories based on the WWII.
However, rarely there are any books with stories so gripping that make me want to follow through continuing saga of any kind though, this series proved to be an exception. It is definitely well worth reading the entire series.
The only flaw in the otherwise perfect series is the discrepancy in naming Lt. Hon Song Do who is Korean and, to my knowledge there is no surname Hon anywhere in the history books or documentary of any kind in Korea. It should have been named Hong instead.
I should know that well since I am a Korean born and always have been an avid reader of many different books, either in Korean or English.
Though seemingly minor mishaps in naming other korean characters as well as places in other parts of the books though, it's rather discomfitting to see such uncharacteristic oversight in an author of Mr. Griffin's status.
Over all, this is definitely one of the best war stories I have ever read and am very much looking forward to the continuing stories of the "Killer" McCoy and gravity defying stories of "Pick" Pickering, etc....
Just for a thought, my husband thinks I am definitely too crazy to read such a thing and even crazier to write random thoughts of this knid...
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The Corps series is the very first series that I have read of W.E.B. Griffin, but it certainly won't be the last. Griffin is a marvellous writer who mixes actual people in with his fictional people. His stories are epics and the plots are larger than life as war so often is. This book is set around the beginning of the Korean War in the latter part of 1950. Most of the action takes place behind the lines in North Korea. Major Ken (Killer) McCoy takes a lead role in this one as he mounts a series of behind-the-lines surveillance teams. Their main job is to monitor the Chinese border to determine whether of not the Red Chinese are going to enter the war. We have a lot of the original characters from World War II such as General Fleming Pickering, Colonel Ed Banning, Major Malcom Pickering and Master Gunnery Sergeant Zimmerman, as well as some new names and people. The book is so realistic that it took my breath away. I am very sorry to reach the end of this stupendous series. I will subsequent tackle The Badge of Honor series. If I get half as much enjoyment out of that as I did with this one, I will be happy.
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While I am enjoying Griffin's new 'Presidential' series, I just re-read his 'The Corps' series from beginning to end, and I really think that there is room for a couple of more books there. _Retreat, Hell!_ ended with the birth of the McCoy's son and the Chinese have just entered the Korean War. What happened to his characters next? What about Vietnam and the CIA in the 1950s? The 1960s?
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