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Title: Retreat, Hell by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0-399-15081-1 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 05 January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: WHat Picture?
Comment: Why would any supposed writer/historian have, as his cover jacket picture, a Marine PFC, from 1st MarDiv, sprinting across "Death Valley" in Okinawa, in the Spring of 1945?
Wrong war........wrong location.
Rating: 1
Summary: Boring - Nothing Happened ....
Comment: Absolutely nothing occurs in this novel: the Chinese don't invade, MacArthur doesn't get fired, no one gets laid, no one gets heroically killed. Just lots of Griffin type pedantic prose. He either gets paid by the pound, or by the word - how many times do you need to be advised that McCoy is a Major, USMCR?
Griffin cranks one of these out every 18 months or so. Good market timing - I usually forget what little content there is and, as a simple ex-Marine, have high hopes for a great story of the Corps. The first two in this series were pretty good and offered some potential. Very little action since; fooled again, and again, and again ...
In the early sixties, I trained and served under men who fought at the Frozen Chosin. They were common men , but heros all. This was the greatest instant of our (USMC) history. Griffin simply doesn't do the Korean conflict justice.
Don't buy this book. Check it out from you library, borrow it from a foolish friend, or wait and lift the reject from Good Will for 50 cents.
Semper Fi........
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but not Griffin at his best
Comment: Griffin's latest entry in his WWII/Korean War series is a good read, but it's by no means his best book in that series. The earlier books, the USMC war novels, are better. The later books have an OSS/CIA slant, which Griffin doesn't handle as well.
From the title, one would expect a sweeping war novel, but it's really about field intelligence operations in the early days of the CIA. McCoy is back in action, behind the lines, and as competent as ever. Pick Pickering gets himself into trouble, and this time it's serious. Really, though, by now all the major characters are too senior to be doing what they're doing.
A previous book in this series, "Behind the Lines" is being made into a movie, "They Fought Alone", starring Brad Pitt. "Behind the Lines" is a better book than "Retreat, Hell". Read it first if you haven't read Griffin before.
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Title: The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy ISBN: 039915079X Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 11 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Marine: A Novel of War From Guadalcanal to Korea by James Brady ISBN: 0312291426 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Final Justice: A Badge of Honor by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515136565 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Final Justice by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0399149260 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Trojan Odyssey by Clive Cussler ISBN: 0399150803 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 24 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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