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Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 4
Language
English
Description
The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral, but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable. The hero is Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot recruited by the OSS, with strong family ties to Argentina, and a lot on his hands. OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan has asked him to set up his own official-but-really-OSS airline in Argentina, using "loaned" Lockheed Lodestars and Constellations. Of even more concern are two...
3) Battleground
Author
Series
Corps volume 4
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1991.
Language
English
Description
Marine Corps soldiers fight in the Pacific in the bloody months spanning the battles of Midway and Guadalcanal.
5) Dead zero
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Marine Corps master sniper Bob Lee Swagger travels to the remote deserts and caves of Afghanistan to track down a renegade Marine who is using extreme measures to complete a mission.
7) Call to arms
Author
Series
Corps volume 2
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
The second novel in a series about the Marine Corps follows the first combat operation of the Raiders, a small elite force designed to operate behind enemy lines during World War II
Author
Publisher
T. Dunne/St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Coast Guard Captain Josh Thurlow, wounded during a Pacific island battle, is nursed back to health by Sister Mary Kathleen, a young Irish nun, during World War II, and must decide whether to continue fighting or settle down in the romantic splendor of the South Seas.
10) Walking wounded
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends at home and in Vietnam, but now Rudi has been killed in action, and the remaining three are the only ones who know the truth about their friend's death--and the knowledge threatens to tear them apart.
11) Counterattack
Author
Series
Corps volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
An authentic portrait of the Marine Corps, the brave men and women who fought--and loved--in the sweeping turmoil of World War II.
12) Close combat
Author
Series
Corps volume 6
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
An epic novel of World War II brings the saga of The Corps into exciting arenas all over the Pacific, as American forces brace to defend Guadalcanal from an all-out effort by the Japanese to recapture the island. From Iwo Jima to Australia to Washington, old faces and new are faced with the challenge of their lives.
13) In danger's path
Author
Series
Corps volume 8
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Put in charge of the OSS's Pacific operations, General Fleming Pickering is faced with two covert missions in the Gobi Desert. Called to duty is a Marine he doesn't expect...a scapegrace pilot named Malcolm, his son. Together, they will venture incognito--and with luck they may even come out alive.
14) Retreat, hell!
Author
Series
Corps volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1950, the Marines make a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon. While MacArthur is intent on surging across the 38th parallel, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering works desperately to mediate the escalating battle between MacArthur and President Harry Truman.
15) The third bullet
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the events surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy finds Bob Lee Swagger drawing on old records, intelligence archives, and observations at the infamous site to investigate a new clue about a third bullet that mysteriously exploded.
17) Iwo, 26 Charlie
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young gunnery liaison officer, Lee Bishop, during the ferocious battle for the island, is pulled from his station aboard the USS Nevada to serve on-shore as a spotter, calling in coordinates for the ship to target with missiles. But Bishop is completely unready for what he will witness and experience: a literal hell, during which 26,000 Americans are killed in a fight to the very last man, which culminates in the blistering, sulphurous tunnels of...
Author
Series
First to fight novel volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As a troubled teen, Gregory Higgs channeled his energy into boxing instead of breaking the law. The ring gave him purpose and something to strive for. So did the Marines. Combining the two seemed like a natural fit. Another natural fit? Reagan Robilard, the sweet athlete liaison who keeps all the fighters out of trouble and manages their PR, a job that gets more challenging when someone digs up the truth about Greg's not-so-shiny past after equipment...
19) Line of fire
Author
Series
Corps volume 5
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a special rescue team assemble to take on a desperate mission during the battle for control of the Solomons when two Marines are trapped at a Coastwatcher station on tiny Buka Island--and faced with the double threat of dwindling supplies and discovery by the Japanese.
20) Under fire
Author
Series
Corps volume 9
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
After the epic struggle of World War II, W.E.B. Griffins bestselling chronicle of the Marine Corps enters a new stage of modern warfarewith new weapons, new strategies, and a new breed of warrioron the battlefields of Korea. In 1950, Captain Ken McCoys report on North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that he is promptly booted out of the Corpsand just as promptly picked up by the...
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