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Summary: Probably the best of the series
Review: This introduction to The Brotherhood of War may very well be the best of the series. Although this volume brings Lowell, Felter, MacMillan and Bellmon to the reader, it also provides a means for the reader to understand heroism at its basic best, and how the Army of WW2 drew officers from among the bravest.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: This is a great book! I have always been interested in the military, especially WW2, but had never read a book about the military. Once I started The Lieutenants, I couldn't put it down. I'm definitely finishing the rest of this series!
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Summary: Start of a great series!
Review: This is where it all starts. It's a great read with dialog that is so accurate its scarey. The attitude of the main characters reflects the feelings of the times. Historically its a fun and interesting book. It is well worth ones time!
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Summary: Thank You Griffin for another great read
Review: This new series is the answer to my prayer. Griffin is one of a handfull of authors who really KNOW war, whats involved and what actually happens. He dosen't just describle battles or campaigns, but tells you about the REAL people who do the fighting to make our country safe and strong. Alot has been said about the details of military life and how it affects the combatants and thier families both during war and peace times,but Griffin lets you actually see it. When Tom Clancey said Griffin was a great writer, it said alot about both mens abilities
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Summary: Not great literature but it's an engrossing read
Review: This really rates a little more than a 3 because it's a rousing story and less than a 4 because the writing is just average.In this first book of the Brotherhood of War series, Major Robert Bellmon, West Point '39, is blasted out of his Sherman tank and captured by the Germans in Tunisia in 1943. With other prisoners he's shipped to Italy and then on to Poland. Colonel Graf Peter-Paul von Grieffenberg, German nobleman and pre-war friend of Bellmon's father-in-law, learns of Russian atrocities in Poland. Anxious to alert the American government to Russian war crimes, von Grieffenberg arranges to have Bellmon visit the sites and provide him with photographs and documentation. Tech sergeant Rudy MacMillan arrives with a truckload of dispirited, demoralized American prisoners. Under Bellmon's leadership, MacMillan shapes up the troops and the two become fast friends. Meanwhile, back at West Point, Cadet Corporal Sanford T. Felter decides to resign from the Corps and got to war. Because of his fluency in Russian, Polish and German, he is assigned to headquarters, 40th Armored Division, in Europe. As the war grinds to an end in 1945, the Russians are on the move. Von Grieffenberg's troops march the American officers from Poland into Germany, leaving enlisted men to fend for themselves. The story goes on to postwar Germany where Gen. Waterford wants his polo team to beat the French and since the French will play only with officers, Waterford promotes his best polo player from Private to Lieutenant. Sandy Felter (the West Pointer) ends up in Greece. The series is a fascinating look at a history of the army. It's pretty thorough and always entertaining. Griffin's writing is more journalistic than literary but he tells a rousing story. Military enthusiasts should love this series.
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Summary: Best Book I Ever Read - Extremely Well Balanced
Review: W.E.B. Griffin has done a magnificent job in balancing superb dialogue with vivid action scenes. Griffin possesses the unique ability to have whatever he writes down on paper, automaticlly come to life in ones mind, each different, and each unique. The Lieutenants is certainly a great start to his exciting series, Brotherhood of War.
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Summary: Best Book I Ever Read - Extremely Well Balanced
Review: W.E.B. Griffin has done a magnificent job in balancing superb dialogue with vivid action scenes. Griffin possesses the unique ability to have whatever he writes down on paper, automaticlly come to life in ones mind, each different, and each unique. The Lieutenants is certainly a great start to his exciting series, Brotherhood of War.
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Summary: A most insightful look inside the culture of the U.S. Army.
Review: W.E.B. Griffin writes with the authority of, "one-who-was-there."
From his opening description of a U.S. Army tank, the reader knows that
he is in for a realistic description of war from the perspective of a warrior. Griffin develops the characters of Lowell, Felter, Bellmon, and MacMillian so well, that the reader grows with them and begins to think like a member of the Brotherhood of War.
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Summary: War in Greece
Review: W.E.B. Griffin's "Brotherhood of War" follows a couple of career Army officers from the end of WWII until Vietnam. "The Lieutenants" is the first in the series, and shows the two main men, Felter and Lowell, at the beginning of their career. Felter is a Jew who is commisioned because he knows languges desperatly needed in Eastern Europe. Lowell is promoted from private to second lieutenant because a general needed a polo player. The two misfits are regarded with scorn until a tour in Greece as advisors, where they end up seeing more action than they did in the war America was 'officially' involved with. I loved how need of a polo played out weighted the needs of the Army; that is what I saw a lot of when I was in the Army. Lowell's wife's fruelin Elsa Berg's story was one I have seen several times while I was in Germany. Well, not exactly; the girls I saw were not displaced because of any wars. But they were gold diggers. I really felt bad for Lowell, because he was promoted way past his ability, and then stuck with it in a nearly immpossible situation (an inexperienced officer as an advisor in Greece). But that made it even better when he kept getting the upper hand over his superiors later on. There was not a plot that strung the book together, it is more character drivin than anything else. One thing I was disappointed with was that there was little combat scenes. Only two or three that I could count. It had more to do with the decisions involved n the outcome of battles than it was the actual fighting. But it is still interesting for anyone interested in the military, and should be a must read for any one actually in the service.
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Summary: Captive
Review: When You start to read these sieres it keeps you going. Myself being a young LT. Can see what is going on with Sandy. My favorit person was Lowell.
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