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Author
Series
Men at war volume 1
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The World War II adventures of a group of OSS agents, the highlight of which is the abduction of a French engineer from Morocco. The man possesses knowledge vital to the construction of the atom bomb. By the author of Blood and Honor.
Author
Series
Men at war volume 2
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Agents from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the World War II spy agency, parachute into the Belgian Congo to obtain uranium ore. A race is on between the U.S. and Germany as to who will make the first atom bomb.
3) The captains
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 2
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
c1983.
Language
English
Description
It was more than an incident. It was a deadly assault across the 38th parallel. It was the Korean War. In the fear and frenzy of battle, those who had served with heroism before were called again by America to man the trenches and sandbag bunkers. From Pusan to the Yalu, they drove forward with commands too new and tanks too old: brothers in war, bonded together in battle as they had never been in peace ...
4) 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) The majors
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 3
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
c1983.
Language
English
Description
An elite delegation of American soldiers are secretly sent to Vietnam to offer the French military assistance.
6) The aviators
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 8
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1988.
Language
English
Description
It is 1964. The Vietnam War has begun to escalate, its new style of battle demanding new weapons and tactics, and men who can use them. Overnight, it seems, the United States Army must scramble to create its first-ever Air Assault Division, a force critical to its chances of success. The obstacles are staggering--untrained men, technical mishaps, interservice rivalries. But through sheer courage and dedication, these heroic fighters rise to the challenge....
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.
8) 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
9) 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...
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 5
Language
English
Description
Assigned to help a German lieutenant colonel to escape from a prisoner-of-war detention center, World War II OSS officer Cletus Frade learns of the colonel's role in a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler and must outmaneuver a plot to kill the man's Nazi-connected parents.
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) 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.
13) Fighting agents
Author
Series
Men at war volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the ragged remnants of the American forces stand against the might of the Imperial Japanese Army, a determined cadre of OSS agents becomes their only contact with the outside world-and their only hope for survival.
14) Behind the lines
Author
Series
Corps volume 7
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Refusing to surrender despite the odds against the American forces in 1942, a renegade Army officer organizes a resistance force while a Marine leads his team on a mission through the heart of enemy territory.
15) 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.
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