W. E. B. Griffin

Griffin, W.E.B. – Men At War 01 – The Last Heroes – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview In January 1939, Professor Niels Bohr, a German physicist who had fled Germany and was then living in Copenhagen, traveled to the United States and visited with Professor Albert Einstein, a German mathematician who had also fled Germany and was then living in Princeton, New Jersey. Among other things, they discussed an interesting … Read more

Griffin, W.E.B. – Honor 03 – Secret Honor – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview During the spring of 1943, 240 German submarines were operating in the North and South Atlantic Ocean. Their mission was the interdiction of Allied shipping carrying war supplies from the United States to England and North Africa, and of Allied shipping carrying wool, beef, and other foodstuffs from (primarily) Argentina to England. During … Read more

Griffin, W.E.B. – Honor 02 -Blood and Honor – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview Estancia San Pedro y San Pablo Near Pila, Buenos Aires Province Republic of Argentina The concentration el Coronel Jorge Guillermo Frade was devoting to the inch-thick document on his desk was interrupted by what sounded like the death agony of a water buffalo being stomped by an elephant. Frade, a six-foot-one, 195-pound, fifty-one-year-old, … Read more

Griffin, W.E.B. – Honor 01 – Honor Bound – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview Guadalcanal. Solomon Islands Three Grumman F4F Wildcats approached Henderson Field from the west in a shallow descent from 15,000 feet. These three single-engine fighters represented one hundred per-cent of the aircraft available to Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-221-which put them at thirteen planes short of the sixteen they were authorized. The Cactus Air Force, … Read more

Griffin, W.E.B. – Brotherhood Of War 09 – Special Ops – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview The Brotherhood Of War 9 THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF WASHINGTON, D.C. Duplication Forbidden Copy 4 of Seven. For Distribution By Officer Courier Only Commanding General, United States Strike Commanding General, European Command Commanding General, United States Air Commanding General, Seventh United States 1. By Direction of the President; by Command of His … Read more

Griffin, W.E.B. – Brotherhood Of War 08 – The Aviators – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview Pleiku,RepublicofSouth Vietnam 1205 Hours 15 August 1963 When the glistening twin-engine Beechcraft U-8D, painted in the peacetime U.S. Army glossy white, black, and olive color scheme, touched down on. the runway at Pleiku, Major Warren H. Hightower,Infantry,USA , the commanding officer of the 170th Assault Helicopter Company, was on the parking ramp waiting … Read more

Griffin, W.E.B. – Brotherhood Of War 07 – The NewBreed – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview The White HouseWashington,D.C. 12 December 1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson, the President Of the United, States, was sitting on a small couch in the Oval Office. Following the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy twenty days before, Johnson had acceded to the presidency. This was enough time for Johnson to grow to like what he … Read more

Griffin, W.E.B. – Brotherhood Of War 05 – The Berets – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview FOR NATIONAL WIRE 828PM JULY 19, 1961 APW 31/283 SLUG: SALINGER: “NO COMMENT” RE AMERICANS CAPTURED AT BAY WASH DC July 19: Presidential Press Secretary Piere Salinger refused comment tonight on the question of American military personnel captured In Cuba during the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba, and was either unable … Read more

Griffin, W.E.B. – Brotherhood Of War 04 – The Colonels – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview When available, a caparisoned stallion, with boots reversed in stirrups, to be led in the procession, Is authorized for military funerals of officers and noncommissioned officers assigned to Armor or Armored Cavalry, or for officers and noncommissioned officers formerly assigned to Cavalry. A ground crew two sergeants in fatigues and field jackets was … Read more

Griffin, W.E.B. – Brotherhood Of War 03 – The Majors – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview The black, four-door Buick Roadmaster carried Virginia license plates. Attached to the plates was a strip of metal on which was stamped ALEXANDRIA 1954, as proof the owner had paid his 1954 Alexandria city automobile tax. The car showed none of the other decalomania, however, that many of the cars in the Washington, … Read more

Griffin, W.E.B. – Badge of Honor 09 – The Traffickers – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview 7522 Battersby Street, Philadelphia Wednesday, September 9, 1:55 Tony Harris returned to his bed, silently cursing himself for not having hit the john before he’d crawled under the sheets two hours earlier. Harris—a thirty-eight-year-old homicide detective in the Philadelphia Police Department who was slight of build and starting to bald—then clicked off the … Read more

Griffin, W.E.B. – Badge of Honor 07 – Investigators – Griffin, W. E. B.

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Book Preview A nearly new, but quite dirty, antenna-festooned Buick pulled into the employee parking lot of the Philadelphia Bulletin and into a parking space bearing a sign reading RESERVED MR. O?HARA. Mr. Michael J. O?Hara, a wiry, curly haired man in his late thirties, wearing gray flannel trousers, loafers, a white shirt with the … Read more