The Corps: Three Complete Novels (Semper Fi, Call to Arms, Counterattack)

By W.E.B. Griffin

Book Overview

The first three volumes of the author's Marine saga, Semper Fi, Call to Arms, and Counterattack, are published together in a World War II epic reaching from Shanghai to Guadalcanal. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399139133
• ISBN13: 9780399139130
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Length: 812 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 2.2" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Griffin is describing the real Marine Corps

Although I am retired from the U.S. Navy, I served in Tsingtao, China, wearing a Marine uniform, as part of the Aircraft Fleet Marine Force, Western Pacific for a year (1948). It was temporary duty, and I was not a Marine, but I got to know them very well--at least the "airedale" Marines.As they say, "Some of my best friends are Marines!"It was an unforgettable year, and W.E.B. Griffin has captured the spirit, the 'esprit de corps,' of "The Corps" in these three novels, and in his other stories. It is often summed up this way: "Once a Marine, always a Marine."W.E.B. Griffin is best known for chronicling his beloved Marine Corps in fictional form. His depictions ring so true that Marines around the world read, and their eyes grow damp. Of course, it would be better not to accuse them of such emotion.These three novels present an epic tale of the battle for the Solomon Islands in 1942 between the United States and the Japanese empire. It is about Marine fighter pilots, grunts, Coastwatchers operating under the very noses of the Japanese forces, generals, colonels and privates and their wives and sweethearts--tales of valor, loyalty, love and the challenges of fighting a war in which the end result was very much in doubt.I recommend W.E.B. Griffin's version of the Corps. I recommend the Marine Corps as a service. I recommend reading these stories. Although this book is, temporarily at least, out-of-print--I recommend the stories themselves, wherever you can find them.Joseph H. Pierre, USN (Ret)