Death and Honor

[ONE] - Senior German Officer Prisoner of War Detention Facility Camp Clinton, ...

[TWO]

[THREE]

[FOUR] - Bolling Air Force Base Washington, D.C. 1730 6 August 1943

[FIVE] - Bolling Air Force Base Washington, D.C. 2205 6 August 1943

XVI

[ONE] - Aeropuerto El Alto La Paz, Bolivia 1230 11 August 1943

[TWO] - Canoas Air Base Pôrto Alegre, Brazil 2135 11 August 1943

[THREE] - Estancia San Pedro y San Pablo Near Pila Buenos Aires Province, ...

[FOUR] - Aeropuerto Coronel Jorge G. Frade Morón, Buenos Aires Province, ...

[FIVE] - 4730 Avenida Libertador Buenos Aires, Argentina 1515 12 August 1943

AUTHOR NOTE

ALSO BY W. E. B. GRIFFIN

HONOR BOUND

HONOR BOUND

BLOOD AND HONOR

SECRET HONOR

BROTHERHOOD OF WAR

BOOK I: THE LIEUTENANTS

BOOK II: THE CAPTAINS

BOOK III: THE MAJORS

BOOK IV: THE COLONELS

BOOK V: THE BERETS

BOOK VI: THE GENERALS

BOOK VII: THE NEW BREED

BOOK VIII: THE AVIATORS

BOOK IX: SPECIAL OPS

THE CORPS

BOOK I: SEMPER FI

BOOK II: CALL TO ARMS

BOOK III: COUNTERATTACK

BOOK IV: BATTLEGROUND

BOOK V: LINE OF FIRE

BOOK VI: CLOSE COMBAT

BOOK VII: BEHIND THE LINES

BOOK VIII: IN DANGER’S PATH

BOOK IX: UNDER FIRE

BOOK X: RETREAT, HELL!

PRESIDENTIAL AGENT

BOOK I: BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT

BOOK II: THE HOSTAGE

BOOK III : THE HUNTERS

BOOK IV: THE SHOOTERS

BADGE OF HONOR

BOOK I: MEN IN BLUE

BOOK II: SPECIAL OPERATIONS

BOOK III: THE VICTIM

BOOK IV: THE WITNESS

BOOK V: THE ASSASSIN

BOOK VI: THE MURDERERS

BOOK VII: THE INVESTIGATORS

BOOK VIII: FINAL JUSTICE

MEN AT WAR

BOOK I : THE LAST HEROES

BOOK II: THE SECRET WARRIORS

BOOK III: THE SOLDIER SPIES

BOOK IV: THE FIGHTING AGENTS

BOOK V: THE SABOTEURS

(with William E. Butterworth IV)

BOOK VI: THE DOUBLE AGENTS

(with William E. Butterworth IV)

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Death and honor / W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.

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IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Colonel José Manuel Menéndez,

Cavalry, Argentine Army, Retired

He spent his life fighting Communism and Juan Domingo Perón.

PROLOGUE

Historians now generally agree that the tides of war had begun to turn against the German-Japanese-Italian alliance, “The Axis,” in the spring and summer of 1943.