Retreat, Hell! (The Corps Series)

"An incomplete story, making the final novel disappointing" according to Jerrie Brock. Don't know if Griffin intended to go on with the another in the series or what the idea was, but the book seems about half finished. After reading all the other 9, you get left in the middle of an incomplete story. Its ridiculous, really, to end it without really knowing what the entire purpose of the story was. I looked to see if there was a number eleven in the. D. Clement said Semper Fi! WEB Griffin has done it again.. I am prejudiced in that I am a Marine. But even a bit of pro Marine Corps prejudice is not what convinces me that WEB Griffin is a great writer. As far as I know he never served in the Corps, but he captures our ethos and our esprit de corps far better than any other author I know. Griffin writes with feeling and he captures the essence of military life. He manag. McCoy and friends try to dope out Chinese intentions as MacArthur pushes north after Inchon Dan Berger Griffin concludes his series with the fateful events of fall 1950. MacArthur’s bold counterattack at Inchon has reversed the Korean War’s tide and has the North Koreans retreating in disarray. MacArthur wants to press his advantage into North Korea and finish the war by Christmas, but Truman and his Pentagon advisors fear MacArthur will draw the Chine

The bit in his teeth, Douglas MacArthur is intent on surging across the 38th parallel toward the Yalu River, where he is certain no Chinese are waiting for him, while Major Ken McCoy, operating undercover, hears a different story entirely, and is just as intent on nailing down the truth before it is too late. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them. It is the fall of 1950. Meanwhile, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering, shuttling between two continents, works desperately to mediate the escalating battle between MacArthur and President Harry Truman, while trying to keep his mind from the cold fact that somewhere out there, his own daredevil pilot son, Pick, is lost behind enemy lines - and may be lost forever. Before Retreat, Hell! is finished, all their fates will be determined - and for some of them, it will be a bitter pill indeed.

Readers looking for guts and glory military action will be disappointed, as barely a shot is fired in anger, but fans of Griffin's work understand that the pleasures are in the construction of a complex, big-picture history of war down to its smallest details: "There were two men in the rear seat, both of them wearing fur-collared zippered leather jackets officially known as Jacket, Flyers, Intermediate Type G-1." Veterans of the series will enjoy finding old comrades caught up in fresh adventures, while new-guy readers can easily enter here and pick up the ongoing story.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Fleming Pickering attempts to mediate the ongoing battles between feisty, give-'em-hell Harry Truman and the haughty MacArthur, while worrying about his pilot son, Malcolm "Pick" Pickering, who has been shot down behind enemy lines. . The introduction of the Sikorsky H-