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The Last Heroes

by W. E. B. Griffin

ISBN: 0399142894
ISBN-13: 9780399142895
Format: Hardcover

Summary

The first volume in "Men at War", Griffin's saga of battle and espionage, was originally published under the pen name Alex Baldwin. It tells the tale of the young elite members of the Office of Strategic Services and their delicate activities during World War II.

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"A rousing to-the-ends-of-the-earth start for an absorbing narrative takeout on the shallow warriors who handled some decidedly odd jobs in aid of the Allied cause."

-- Kirkus

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
Published date: 1997
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.35 pounds
Pages: 342

Publisher's Notes

In The Last Heroes, it is June 1941. War clouds break over Europe, and determined that the United States will be prepared, Franklin D. Roosevelt and "Wild Bill" Donovan orchestrate the most complex espionage organization in history, the Office of Strategic Services. Young and daring, the handpicked members of the OSS assemble under a thin camouflage of diplomacy and then disperse throughout the world to conduct operations upon which may hinge the entire outcome of the war. And of them all, no operation may be more critical than the one being conducted by hotshot pilot Richard Canidy and his half-German wild-card friend Eric Fulmar: to secure the rare ore that will power a top-secret weapon coveted on both sides of the Atlantic - the atomic bomb.

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