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Victory And Honor (2011)

by W.E.B. Griffin(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0399157557 (ISBN13: 9780399157554)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

G.P. Putnam's Sons

series

Honor Bound

review 1: This was a book about the chaos at the end of World War II, or at least the European part of the war. Spies, smuggled Nazis, panic in the streets of Berlin, all that is here. The book focuses on an American Marine who has dual citizenship in Argentina and is working for the OSS, helping some good Germans escape the fall of Germany. It's decent military thriller for WWII, a bit jargon heavy at times.One minor thing that knocked me out of the story at one point-- I'm fairly sure that "zombie" wasn't in common parlance back in '45, and it gets used at one point.Overall, entertaining read; it's the middle of a series, so there's a bit of confusion if coming in on this one as I did. Not bad, not great.
review 2: While I like the author’s Argentina “Honor”... more series very much overall, the story lines have gotten pretty thin and it’s probably time to put the old girl to rest. Victory and Honor is #6 in the series about O.S.S. operations in WWII South America. While the war ended sometime in #5, for some reason, the story continues into this volume….. and the next – I see #7, Empire and Honor just got published. This all seems to be about the author providing a writing career for his son, listed as a co-author on all Griffin series for the last few years. Even the WWII USMC series continues on into the Korean War. When will it all end? Who knows? Who cares? Suffice it to say, I’m already pot-committed, I.e. I’m all in, as are thousands of other Griffin fans. We keep buying the books because it’s very much like reading letters about family and old friends – you want to know what happens to them, however mundane and trivial. He brilliantly tosses in a few morsels of new info amid the pages and pages of chronicling daily life. For example, I became very happy when Griffin finally had the Navy dock Cletus Frade’s pay for the chronograph watch he never turned in after returning from Guadalcanal three years earlier in the story. And an even bigger nugget, he referenced the only crossover character in all of Griffin’s books, I.e. Lt. Colonel Clyde W. Dawkins – WOW! That’ll make the Griffin geeks keep coming back for more. I would never suggest anyone read a Griffin book as a stand-alone – it’s really about the journey and understanding the Griffin formula. On to Empire and Honor to find out what Cletus Frade is having for breakfast….. less

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