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Counterattack (Hardcover)

by W. E. B. Griffin (Author) "The Japanese Carrier Task Force charged with the destruction of the United States Pacific Fleet began launching aircraft approximately 305 nautical miles north of Pearl..." (more)

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Hardcover: 444 pages
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (T); 1st edition edition (January 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 039913493X
ISBN-13: 978-0399134937
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 3.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 840 g

Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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Griffin's previous books have established him as a novelist of military manners. In his work, combat is only part of the environment in which armed forces function; war becomes a peg on which to hang series of vignettes showing the author's mastery of various military mentalities. Counterattack , Volume III of The Corps series, covers the period from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal in an unorthodox fashion. Instead of offering the usual tales of Marine heroism and sacrifice, Griffin explores the difficult adjustment of enlisted men suddenly given officers' commissions; the raising of a Marine parachute battalion; the impact of total war on peacetime routines. His penchant for Marine arcana occasionally becomes intrusive, and the periodic reintroductions of characters from earlier books slow the plot and are likely to confuse readers who begin with Counterattack. Yet he succeeds in the more important task of making a point often obscured in conventional military fiction: the essence of war is boredom, punctuated by random episodes of terror. BOMC dividend selection.
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4.0 out of 5 stars If you missed The Big One (WWII), May 24 2004

By	R. Tiedemann "Sunnye" (Bellevue, NE USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the third installment of Griffin's epic about the Marine Corps in World War II. It begins with the attack on Pearl Harbor and ends with the landing on Guadalcanal. It's the usual Griffin fare.

It's an absolute must for those who, like my husband, feel cheated because they missed out on WWII (he was too young).

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2.0 out of 5 stars Confusing, convoluted, not one of his better books..., Jan 26 2004

By	K. Blodgett "Hawk" (Palm Bay, Florida USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Corps #3 Counterattack (Paperback)

Griffin's books normally run in a chronological order, with frequent and sometimes confusing flashbacks. Yes this book goes back and starts chronologically somewhere in the middle of book one of The Corps and revisits people and places we've already seen and been to. This book also throws names at you, LOTS and lots of new characters and places, people who didn't exist in the first two books and yet appear in the time frame those two books take place in. If you put finished the 2nd book in the series and expected this to pick up where that left off with the characters you were reading about and interested in, you'll be sadly disappointed as most of the people we've already met have only supporting roles in this novel.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A Waste of Time, Jan 13 2003

By	Dean E. Robertson (Wooster, OH USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Corps #3 Counterattack (Paperback)

I picked up these books hoping to gain some insight into the actions of the Marine Corps in the Pacific during World War II. What I found instead was a sort of soap opera that rambles on for hundreds of pages without getting around to much actual fighting. For example, The Marines don't even get to Guadalcanal (their first major offensive) until the end of book III, some 1200 pages into the story. Those 1200 intervening pages are mostly conversations (ad nauseam) between stateside Marine Corps officers as they sit around headquarters, or go out on the town chasing skirts.

The small portion of the books that is devoted to actual battles is done in such a cursory fashion that you're left with the impression that the author either finds this aspect of the Marines' mission distasteful, or doesn't understand it well enough to write about it. Mr. Griffin could have deleted about 80% of his material, and would have ended up with better books, albeit still not good ones.

If you're the sort of person who likes to watch daytime soap operas, then you may enjoy these books. If, on the other hand, you're interested in military history, the banality of these books will leave you screaming in frustration.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A stepping stone to later action...
This,the third volume in the Corps series,must be regarded as a convenient stepping stone to later episodes. Read more

Published on Feb 1 2002 by Rodger Raubach

4.0 out of 5 stars Another exciting offering in The Corps series...
*Counterattack* is the third book in the popular Corps series by W.E.B. Griffin. Book 3 starts at the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, and follows the... Read more

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