Great Historical Fiction W.E.B. Griffin is a great writer of the historical fiction. He is able to weave historical facts with a little bit of fiction and keep the reader's interest with a great story. The whole Corps series from before WWII on in to the Korean War are connected so well that you could sit and read the whole series back to back in one sitting if you had the time.
If you missed The Big One (WWII) 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).
Confusing, convoluted, not one of his better books... 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.
