The Generals: Brotherhood of War, Book 6

WEB Griffin is one of this reviewers TOP FIVE Authors, has been for nearly forty years.. OWN all of his Badge of Honor', Presidents Agent', and Clandestine Agents, Series. Mr. Griffin's attention to detail for military life, FACTS on gear, and especially airplanes (if not a pilot himself, must done Umpteen HOURS of research); only Tom Clancy (original author, not ghost writers writing under his name after 2013). One thing about Griffin's SERIES, is character development which is carried forward from one book to next, WITHOUT repeated pages duplicating same stuff like some do... Own ALL books in Brotherhood of War Series. Read many thousands of books over many decades (am Reader going back to Jr. High) and normally not interested in 'military books, or World War II era stories, with exception of Mr. Griffin's books. His attention to detail and HISTORY is Excellent, bar none.. His KNOWLEDGE is incredible,, as Clandestine Agent series. NOTE: most books when original author has passed nd is being ghost written by other authors, rarely meets expectations. EXCEPT, Wm Butterworth IV , Griffin's son, are every bit as good as original books by Griffin only (another rare exception is Cussler with Dirk Cussler who's continuing his Dirk Pitt series). OTHER end of spectrum where crass commercialism to make money off original author, churning MULTIPLE books a MONTH, so bad that 'ghost writer' has obviously NOT READ a single one of the books on character he's copying, i.e. Wm Johnstone books and MULTIPLE writers using J.A. Johnstone.)ANYWAY, MR, GRIFFIN AND HIS SON, WM E BUTTERWORTH IV HAVE CARRIED ON THE TORCH WITH EXCELLENT WRITING WORTH A READERS SPENDING HIS HARD EARNED MONEY. 5-STAR AUTHOR AND 5-STAR SERIES. This reviewer OWNS and keeps these books, some after 10-20 years, read series again., Presidential Agent is exception,, finished reading in some cases three times Characters in Presidential Agent, and Badge of Honor, two favorite series. Brotherhood of War is on par with Clandestine Agent (real details on end WWII and start of CIA after WWII, Historically accurate as best can tell when checked, Great Read to boot.DAVZWAY

Disappointing finale to an incredibly entertaining series.I own this series both in paper, and on Kindle. I've re-read it numerous times, each time dreading reaching the Generals. I love most of the characters, and almost feel like I know them. Sandy, Mac, the Bellmons, the Parkers, Hanrahan, Jiggs...all awesome characters. But the series is Craig Lowell. Without him, it's just another war series.What WEB Griffin did to Lowell in this book is unexplainable. Lowell wouldn't have thrown away his career for this women. Why have the woman in the story at all. The concept of a rescue in Nam was exciting, and a way to tie up the series with all the stars together. Bringing this idiotic woman into the story was nothing but moronic. And then, on top of this idiocy, Lowell's son shows up in another lame and totally unnecessary twist.Who wrote the middle of this book, WEB? You ruined a great series, and destroyed a wonderful character.Sucks.

This one is one of the very best-written novels of this superb series excepting the ending, which is completely and utterly unsatisfactory. Oddly, it seems to skip over key parts of the chronology (perhaps to be handled later in the series?) whereby Col. Lowell makes Colonel and serves in Vietnam. We are introduced to Col. Lowell's cousin as he goes through basic training and more, and the series continues to chronicle the rise of Special Forces. This particular novel features some of the author's best writing and storytelling. ***Very Minor Spoiler*** -- Col. Lowell, who is a talented and brilliant officer, acts stupidly and I saw where this was headed early on, as will most readers. I would have preferred a different ending with respect to Col. Lowell, who is my favorite character in the series. Oh well ...This is a deeply insightful novel about the Army. Oddly, it mainly focuses on rather unconventional members of the Officer Corps but is just fine for all that. Col. Lowell received his commission in the most unconventional manner imaginable. Col. Felter dropped out of West Point and re-enlisted. Numerous other characters receive direct commissions. In my 5 years in the Army I never met an officer who received a direct commission or a battlefield commission -- that's how rare that is. Enjoy. RJB.

A good reading of the original text, although there are parts where the reading is too exact, i.e. 2000 being read as two thousand vice as a time, 20 hundred. Also there were some skips on the discs.

Great

Brilliant. Reading it for second time.

very pleased

exactly as expected