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W. E. B. Griffin

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William Edmund Butterworth III (born November 10, 1929), better known by his pen name W. E. B. Griffin, is a writer of military and detective fiction with 38 novels in six series published under that name. [1]

47 relations: Alabama, Army of Occupation Medal, Badge of Honor, Barnes & Noble, Boy Scouts of America, Boys' Life, Brotherhood of War, Bureaucracy, Carlo D'Este, Claus von Stauffenberg, Combat Infantryman Badge, Counterintelligence, Deadly Assets, Death at Nuremberg (Griffin novel), Fort Rucker, George S. Patton, Honor Bound series, Korea, Korean War, Lebanese Civil War, Leroy and the Old Man, List of M*A*S*H novels, Marburg, Men at War, New York City, Newark, New Jersey, Norwich University, Oberst, Office of Strategic Services, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Police Department, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, Pseudonym, The Assassination Option, The Corps Series, The Presidential Agent series, Top Secret (novel), United States Army, United States Constabulary, United States Marine Corps, United States military occupation code, University of Marburg, Vietnam War, William Colby, X Corps (United States), 185th Armor Regiment, 1st Marine Division (United States).

Alabama

Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Army of Occupation Medal

The Army of Occupation Medal is a military award of the United States military which was established by the United States War Department on 5 April 1946.

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Badge of Honor

The Badge of Honor novel series is a series of novels written by W.E.B. Griffin about the Philadelphia Police Department.

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States, and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products.

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Boy Scouts of America

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers.

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Boys' Life

Boys' Life is the monthly magazine of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

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Brotherhood of War

The Brotherhood of War is a series of novels written by W. E. B. Griffin, about the United States Army from the Second World War through the Vietnam War.

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Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy refers to both a body of non-elective government officials and an administrative policy-making group.

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Carlo D'Este

Carlo D'Este (born 1938 in Oakland, California) is an American military historian and biographer, author of several books, especially on World War II.

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Claus von Stauffenberg

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and member of the Bavarian noble family von Stauffenberg, who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power.

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Combat Infantryman Badge

The Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB) is a United States Army military award.

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Counterintelligence

Counterintelligence is "an activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program against an opposition's intelligence service." It likewise refers to information gathered and activities conducted to counter espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations or persons, international terrorist activities, sometimes including personnel, physical, document or communications security programs.

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Deadly Assets

Deadly Assets is the twelfth novel in the Badge of Honor series, written by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.

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Death at Nuremberg (Griffin novel)

Death at Nuremberg is the fourth novel in the Clandestine Operations Series by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.

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Fort Rucker

Fort Rucker is a U.S. Army post located mostly in Dale County, Alabama, United States.

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George S. Patton

General George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a senior officer of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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Honor Bound series

The Honor Bound series is a World War II thriller series by W. E. B. Griffin, with the latest three books co-authored by William E. Butterworth IV (Griffin's son).

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Lebanese Civil War

The Lebanese Civil War (الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية – Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted civil war in Lebanon, lasting from 1975 to 1990 and resulting in an estimated 120,000 fatalities.

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Leroy and the Old Man

LeRoy And The Old Man is a children's novel by W.E. Butterworth, published in 1980.

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List of M*A*S*H novels

The M*A*S*H book series includes the original novel that inspired the movie and then the TV series.

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Marburg

Marburg is a university town in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (Landkreis).

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Men at War

Men at War is a series of World War II novels created by W. E. B. Griffin in 1984.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County.

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Norwich University

Norwich University – The Military College of Vermont is a private university located in Northfield, Vermont.

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Oberst

Oberst is a military rank in several German-speaking and Scandinavian countries, equivalent to Colonel.

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Office of Strategic Services

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a wartime intelligence agency of the United States during World War II, and a predecessor of the modern Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia Police Department

The Philadelphia Police Department (PPD or Philly PD) is the police agency responsible for law enforcement and investigations within the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Pritzker Military Museum & Library

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library (formerly Pritzker Military Library) is a museum and a research library for the study of military history in Chicago, Illinois, US.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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The Assassination Option

The Assassination Option is the second novel in the Clandestine Operations Series by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.

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The Corps Series

The Corps is a series of war novels written by W.E.B. Griffin about the United States Marine Corps before and during the years of World War II and the Korean War.

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The Presidential Agent series

The Presidential Agent series was written by military author, W. E. B. Griffin.

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Top Secret (novel)

Top Secret is to be the first novel in the Clandestine Operations series by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Constabulary

The United States Constabulary was a United States Army military gendarmerie force.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.

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United States military occupation code

A United States military occupation code, or a military occupational specialty code (MOS code), is a nine-character code used in the United States Army and United States Marines to identify a specific job.

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University of Marburg

The Philipps University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest Protestant university in the world.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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William Colby

William Egan Colby (January 4, 1920 – April 27, 1996) was an American intelligence officer who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from September 1973 to January 1976.

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X Corps (United States)

X Corps was a corps of the United States Army in World War II and the Korean War.

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185th Armor Regiment

The 185th Armor Regiment was an armor regiment of the United States Army consisting of soldiers from the California Army National Guard.

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1st Marine Division (United States)

The 1st Marine Division (1st MARDIV) is a Marine infantry division of the United States Marine Corps headquartered at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Griffin

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