| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Author |
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| Selling Price |
$9.99
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| Genre |
Fiction |
| Publication Date |
2002 |
| Format |
Hardcover
(240
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162
mm)
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| Publisher |
G. P. Putnam's Sons |
| Language |
English |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket |
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| Plot |
Through eight books, Griffin's bestselling chronicle of the Marine Corps has proven itself to be one of the country's most enduring and popular series. Now Griffin leaves World War II behind and thrusts his readers deep into the heart of the Korean War.
June 1, 1950: Captain Ken McCoy report on probable North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that not only is it promptly suppressed, but McCoy himself is kicked out of the Corps. At least two outfits, however, are not impressed by such infighting: the fledgling CIA, which promptly hires McCoy, and the North Koreans, who on June 25 invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately, veterans scattered throughout military and civilian life are called up, many with only seventy-two hours' notice. Fleming Pickering and his daredevil son Malcolm, Ed Banning, George Hart, Clyde Dawkins, William Dunn, Ernie Zimmerman-for them, and their sweethearts and wives, names such as Inchon and Pusan will acquire a new, bloody reality, and Korea will become not only a new battlefield ... but their greatest challenge of all.
Filled with the crackling realism, adventure, rich characters, and that special flair for the military heart and mind that are his hallmarks, Under Fire is further proof, as Tom Clancy says, that "W. E. B. Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition."
Jacket design © 2002 Lawrence Ratzkin
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| Personal Details |
| Dedication |
The Corps is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Second Lieutenant Drew James Barrett III, USMC Company K, 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines, born Denver, Colorado, 3-Jan-1945, died Quang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam, 27-Feb-1969 - and - Major Alfred Lee Butler, III, USMC, Headquarters 22nd Marine Amphibious Unit, born in Washington, DC on 4-Sep-1950 and died in Beirut, Lebanon on 8-Feb-1984 - and - to the Memory of Donald L. Schomp, a marine fighter pilot who became a legendary US Army Master Aviator - RIP 9-Apr-1989. SEMPER FI! |
| Condition |
Very Fine |
| Owner |
FamilyHistorySites |
| FHS ItemID |
20041049 |
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
PS3557.R489137 |
| Dewey |
813.54 |
| ISBN |
0399147888 |
| Nr of Pages |
576 |
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