num_pages: 856
description: For the first time in one volume, three of the most exciting novels in W.E.B. Griffin's best-selling series.  Millions of readers have been swept away by W.E.B. Griffin's remarkable novels of the Marine Corps, a saga filled with crackling realism and adventure, rich characters, real heroes, and a special flair for the military heart and mind. Here, together for the first time, are books IV,V, and VI of that series:  Battleground, Line of Fire, and Close Combat.  Together, these three novels present an epic tale of the battle between American and Japanese forces for the Solomon Islands in 1942. A general on a ticklish diplomatic mission finds himself in harm's way A first lieutenant, twenty-one years old but already one of only two pilots remaining from the fighter squadron's original sixteen, must learn what it is like to lead men - and to lose them A dare-devil squad attempts to rescue two Island, under the very noses of the Japanese A young private volunteers for a mission for a mission so secret he cannot be told where it is - or what he'll be doing Sweeping in scope but meticulous in detail, the books bring to life the men of the Corps - generals, colonels, and of an elite fraternity united by a tradition of courage and honor. This is The Corps. 
language: English
title: Battleground / Line Of Fire / Close Combat
titlecomplete: Battleground / Line Of Fire / Close Combat (The Corps, #4, #5, #6)
genres: Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 302
series: The Corps
publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons