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Close Combat Audiobook

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Read By: Dick Hill Publisher: Brilliance Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 10.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 7.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Series: The Corps Series Release Date: April 2013 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781455851188

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

45

Longest Chapter Length:

25:43 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

17:33 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

20:27 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

55

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Publisher Description

As Japanese forces close in for an all-out effort to recapture Guadalcanal from the American forces occupying the island, many fates converge and intertwine. First Lieutenant William Dunn, twenty-one years old but already one of the only two pilots remaining from his fighter squadron’s original sixteen, must learn what it is like to lead men — and to lose them. Hot-tempered Sergeant Thomas McCoy finds he has a hero’s welcome waiting stateside — if he can avoid a court-martial first. On a bloody island, Major Jake Dillon discovers just how much combat is involved in a combat correspondent’s life. First Lieutenant R.B. Macklin, a consummate bully, is put on a War Bond tour so he will not endanger his own men. General Fleming Pickering, on a ticklish diplomatic mission, attempts to balance the hot and mighty temperaments of General Douglas MacArthur, OSS Chief William “Wild Bill” Donovan and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. Corporal Robert Easterbrook, still wet behind the ears, discovers that the price of success in wartime may be uncomfortably high. From the Solomons to Australia to Washington, D.C., the warriors, plus the wives and sweethearts who love them, once more find themselves with the challenges of their lives...

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“The novel succeeds because the alcoholic andamorous exploits of its stateside heroes could be mink-lined wish fulfillmentfor the fantasies of the average soldier.”

— Publishers Weekly

Quotes

  • “A storyteller in the grand tradition. Probably the best man around for describing the military community.”

    — Tom Clancy
  • “Griffin has created a brilliant story…not only worthwhile, it’s a public service.”

    — Washington Times

Awards

  • A New York Times bestseller
  • A USA Today bestseller

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About W. E. B. Griffin

W. E. B. Griffin (1929–2019) was the author of military and detective fiction, including several New York Times bestsellers in his Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, The Corps, and Honor Bound series. He also wrote many novels under various pseudonyms. He was invested into the orders of St. George of the US Armor Association and St. Andrew of the US Army Aviation Association, and he was made a life member of the US Special Operations Association, among many others.

About Dick Hill

Laural Merlington is an audiobook narrator with over two hundred titles to her credit and a winner of multiple Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks. She has performed and directed for thirty years in theaters throughout the country. In addition to her extensive theater and voice-over work, she teaches college in her home state of Michigan.