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THE BROTHERHOOD OF WAR: BOOK 7 PDF, EPUB, EBOOK W. E. B. Griffin | 384 pages | 30 Oct 1997 | Penguin Putnam Inc | 9780515092264 | English | New York, NY, United States Brotherhood of War Biblio sellers have a fantastic collection of Beat Generation books and ephemera for browsing. View Our Holiday Gift Guide We made holiday shopping easy: browse by interest, category, price or age in our bookseller curated gift guide. Shop Now. Add to cart Buy Now. Seller rating : This seller has earned a 2 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. Item Price:. More Shipping Options. Ships with Tracking Number! May be re-issue. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service! Your Review. You're rating the book as a work , not the seller or the specific copy you purchased! Terms of Sale Books Express We stand by our service and offer a 14 day return guarantee. Ask Seller a Question. Books Express provides a curated collection of new and used books, toys, and gifts at fair prices. Our customer service and expedited responses and shipping set us apart from other sellers. The customer is the center of business and we take pride in creating delighted customers. Around the same time, Lowell was caught up in "Operation Bootstrap. There are exceptions, but very few. A number of good officers did not have such degrees; so the army sent them, still on active duty and all expenses paid, to college for up to two years to get one. Lowell went to Norwich University in Vermont and in 18 months took a bachelors, summa cum laude, in Foreign Languages German and Russian , while continuing to work for Army Aviation on the q. General Bellmon who regarded Operation Bootstrap as idiotic recounted the story of going to visit Craig in Vermont to buck him up, and finding him on the ski slopes dressed in the height of European skiing fashion, surrounded by bevies of admiring snow bunnies. An accomplished though reluctant staff officer, Lowell was instrumental in the formation of the army's first airmobile division, the First Air Cavalry Division. His administrative skills, along with his planning ability and superb combat leadership, make him an invaluable asset to almost every unit to which he is assigned. Lowell is also described as quite the " guardhouse lawyer " who knows how to manipulate the rules, use his rank, and turn situations to his advantage. The fact that the Duke is also Special Forces qualified, having earned his Green Beret in Greece by "on the job training," influences his assignments from time to time. The Generals barely addresses Lowell's two full tours in Vietnam, first in command of an aviation battalion where his performance earned him a second award of the Distinguished Service Cross , several Air Medals and a promotion to full colonel; and a second tour in command of an aviation group brigade where several helicopters were shot out from under him. Because of his involvement with a prisoner of war's wife, he was involuntarily retired upon his return from the successful mission see below. Though Lowell spends most of the series as a reputed ladies' man, he was a faithful and devoted husband and father to Ilse von Greiffenberg Lowell and their son, "P. Lowell's escapades with women nearly cost him his career more than once. His most notable affairs included Georgia Page, a Hollywood starlet whom he took to the front lines and with whom he allegedly had sex in a tank; Jane Cassidy, his married secretary, while stationed at Fort Rucker; and Cynthia Thomas, a wealthy journalist to whom he became engaged. Cynthia left Lowell at the altar, realizing that though she loved him deeply, they lived in two very different worlds that did not overlap and if they were foolish enough to marry, they would soon come to hate each other when one was forced to give up a career they loved. His last affair, with Dorothy Sims, wife of an Air Force POW in Vietnam, was so far beyond acceptable military behavior that Lowell was immediately retired upon his return from Operation Monte Cristo despite its success. After Dorothy divorced her repatriated husband something she had been planning to do before he was shot down , she and the Duke quietly married and have lived together monogamously ever since. Lowell was admired and respected by the soldiers who served with him, though some more traditional officers, such as Bob Bellmon and Bill Roberts, dislike Lowell because of his apparent womanizing according to Barbara Bellmon, Craig Lowell has never seduced a woman and does not always have the sense to say no when he really ought to; women are always portrayed as seducing him and his disregard for the rules in favor of obtaining results. Nonetheless, they all have grudging respect for both his administrative skills and his demonstrated abilities as a warrior. His great-great-grandfather was a member of the Tenth Cavalry, a distinguished unit of African-American soldiers known as the Buffalo Soldiers. Like his father, Phil IV began his career serving as an Armor officer. He commands a tank company with distinction in Korea, though his record is marred by an incident wherein Parker shoots a cowardly fellow officer. Because Parker is black, he knows he has to be the best in every class to stay even with the others in an army just beginning desegregation. However, Parker's friendship with Lowell often works against Parker's career. Additionally, Parker's career is very nearly ended by the shooting incident in Korea, for which he is charged with murder. He is subsequently acquitted of the charge with the help of testimony given by Lowell, but both men are branded as troublemakers. Following their graduation from the Armor School, both are given dead-end assignments, but the intervention of a senator at Lowell's cousin's suggestion helps revive their careers. Parker is recruited to Army Aviation by then-Colonel Bill Roberts and becomes dual-qualified to fly both fixed wing and rotary aircraft. Parker remains a captain for over 15 years, which he assumes is the result of the Korea incident. Frustrated by his lack of advancement, Parker volunteers for the Green Berets and is accepted by General Paul Hanrahan. Shortly thereafter, it is discovered that Parker's promotion has been held up by a freak clerical error, and he is promoted to major. Given the option to leave Special Forces once he has been promoted, Parker elects to stay and heads the de facto aviation section of Special Forces in its early days. To be with her husband, Toni becomes a contract surgeon with the army and is almost always able to arrange to be assigned to the hospitals on the bases where Phil is stationed. Parker is ultimately rescued from a prisoner of war camp during a daring mission commanded by Lowell. Following his retirement from the army, he returns to Norwich as the Petrofsky Professor of Military History, a chair endowed though the book does not say so, no other character had the necessary information about Petrofsky and the funds to do it by Geoff Craig. As a very young armor Lt. As a POW of the Germans in Poland, he is executive officer of the prisoner detachment and its de facto commander. While a prisoner in the stalag commanded by Oberst Graf von Grieffennerg, he gave the Oberst his parole, was taken to the site of the Katyn Forest massacre , and entrusted with evidence proving the Soviets had committed the atrocity, requesting that he get it to the Western Allies, which he eventually did. Bellmon shifted from Armor to Army Aviation in time to be part of its expansion into a combat arm, was quickly promoted, and eventually became the Commanding General of the Army Aviation base at Fort Rucker. While he is portrayed as a bit of a stuffed shirt who has a problem with officers who don't go by the book particularly Green Berets , there is no doubt as to his abilities and his devotion to the US Army. The Bellmons are well-off financially. The Waterfords owned a substantial amount of property on the California coast near Carmel before selling it off at high prices, and Barbara inherited that money. The Bellmons own a large farm in Virginia, long since paid for, and continue to receive money from the crops grown on the farm, much of which has been invested in stocks and bonds. Although there is four grades-worth of difference in rank between him and Sandy Felter, Bellmon and Felter become good friends, to the point his children refer to Felter as "Uncle Sandy. Despite the disparity in their ranks, and particularly when Felter is acting as the Action Officer for secret missions like Operation Dragon Rouge, Operation Earnest, and Operation Monte Cristo, he treats Felter as an equal as well as a friend. The General Robert F. Bellmon character in part resembles General John K. Waters , who was the real life son-in-law of Patton and a POW in Germany after he was taken prisoner while fighting in Tunisia , in He twice parachuted behind enemy lines to join the partisans during the war, and wears two combat stars on his jump wings. He served as Felter's and Lowell's commanding officer when they were advisors during the Greek Civil War. He is an advocate of the concept of using Special Forces to train and assist allies in fighting their own wars. During the French war in Indochina, Hanrahan was assigned as a military attache in Saigon and narrowly avoids an ambush that would have killed him and his family, who were with him on the assignment.

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