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    Victory and Honor
    Audiobook9 hours

    Victory and Honor

    Written by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV

    Narrated by Scott Brick

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    About this audiobook

    The spectacular new book in New York Times-bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin's Honor Bound saga of World War II espionage.

    Wars come to an end. But then new ones begin. Just weeks after Hitler's suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS find themselves up to their necks in battles every bit as fierce as the ones just ended. The first is political-the very survival of the OSS, with every department from Treasury to War to the FBI grabbing for its covert agents and assets. The second is on a much grander scale-the possible next world war, against Joe Stalin and his voracious ambitions. To get a jump on the latter, Frade has been conducting a secret operation, one of great daring-and great danger-but to conduct it and not be discovered, he and his men must walk a perilously dark line. One slip, and everyone becomes a casualty of war.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 9, 2011
    ISBN9781101526378
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    Victory and Honor
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    W.E.B. Griffin

    W.E.B. Griffin is the author of six bestselling series—and now Clandestine Operations.   William E. Butterworth IV has worked closely with his father for more than a decade, and is the coauthor with him of many books, most recently Hazardous Duty and Top Secret.  

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    • 2/5
      Even though this it tauted as a stand-alone, it's really the sixth book in a series. I read the first 100 pages, and was very confused by the relationships that had apparently been established in the other books leading up to this one. Also, within the first 100 pages, there is absolutely no action, only a bunch of people who all know each other re-establishing contact. For the time being, I'm dropping this book until I can read the others leading up to it. Perhaps people who have read the others enjoyed this more than I did.
    • 5/5
      Excellent!! One of the series I had not yet read.
    • 4/5
      At 9.8 hours, one of the shortest W.E.B. Griffin books I've ever read. Since this is the sixth book in the series, all the characters make sense. This one deals with the end of WWII and the confusion around Nazi defeat. It's largely set in Europe and on trans-Atlantic flights. One of the inconsistencies was that on one occasion, the Argentine crew went to an evening meeting in a Schloss (Castle) just a few minutes outside of Frankfurt, when really, its about a 4 hour drive in today's traffic. I had to suspend believability. The Nazi atrocities are right there, on full display. if you're a fan of military history, Griffin's books are for you.
    • 4/5
      My kid bought me this book for Christmas, Victory and Honor, by W.E.B. Griffin. This is one of my favorite authors. He's been writing professionally since 1960, has about 130 books published under his own name and various pseudonyms. His works include several series: The Brotherhood of War, The Corps, Men at War, Honor Bound, The Presidential Agent, and Badge of Honor. The latter is a series of novels about the Philly police force. It's very good, but I sort of lost interest in it a few years back. The others, as the names would suggest, are about the military and intelligence services. I've read all of those many times over, and have in my library all of the books of those series.Victory and Honor is the latest addition to the Honor Bound series. This series is about the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was formed during World War II and is the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. It's central character is Cletus Frade, a Marine Corps officer who becomes one of the first members of the fledgling intelligence service. The series follows his exploits.This series combines historical fact with fiction, as do all of Griffin's series. This is perhaps one of the reasons I so enjoy the series; the veracity of the historical aspects interwoven with the lives of the fictional characters makes the series all the more fascinating.Griffin joined the Army in 1946. He worked in counter-intelligence in Germany, serving in the Constabulary that occupied the American territories after the surrender of the Nazis. After completing his active duty military service, Griffin attended university in Germany. His college days were cut short in 1951 when he was recalled to serve in the Korean War, first as an official Army war correspondent, then as a public information officer for the Army. Griffin received the Combat Infantry Badge for service at the front lines, which is a highly-coveted award in the Army given only to those who see action against an armed enemy. His knowledge of combat and garrison life and his friendships with military personnel from different services influence his writing, and make it all the more authentic.One of Griffin's duties was delivering food to German general officers and their families, including the widow of Claus von Stauffenberg. (For those of you who aren't fans of history, Claus von Stauffenberg is the guy who tried to blow Hitler up in his bunker on July 20, 1944. Have you seen the movie The Valkryie? Tom Cruise was this guy. He was a patriotic German and a truly courageous man.) Griffin's exposure to German military and civilian aristocracy inspired several of his characters, and lend additional authenticity to his characters and plot lines. Griffin's wife is an Argentine, and her father is a former Colonel in the Argentine cavalry; Griffin has mined his father-in-law and other Argentine contacts to develop Argentine characters and plot lines for his books.On a side not, thank you, Wikipedia, for some of the background info on Griffin.Anyway, if you're a fan of military history, Griffin's books are for you. He just came out with another, Covert Warriors, which is the newest installment of his Presidential Agent series. This series again revolves around the military and intelligence communities, but takes place in the present time. Another great story line. I'll be picking this one up, soon, and I'm really looking forward to reading it.
    • 3/5
      WEB Griffin is my favourite author. I usually wait for softcover because of cost but received this book in hardcover as a Birthday Gift. 310 Pages read in 6 days. I was disappointed with Mr Griffin. The book is about the demise of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) after the end of WW11 by President Truman. This is due to considerable pressure from the Top Brass of all the armed services, the FBI and the Secret Service. He, not being the fool most think he is, realizes its value if they all want it folded into their particular branch, be it Army Intelligence or Navy Intelligence. It did not need to take 310 pages to do it. There is some subtext about 100 Nazis obtaining sanctuary in Argentina with help from the OSS. The OSS became the CIA and this could have been pursued in this book. While a good read and I felt it lacked depth.
    • 4/5
      Typically good W.E.B.Griffin novel. Good detail. Fast moving. Factually plausible.