How Long to Read Edge of Valor

How Long Does it Take to Read Edge of Valor?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Edge of Valor by John Gobbell

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Edge of Valor is the fifth historical thriller by John J. Gobbell featuring the World War II exploits of Cdr. Todd Ingram, commanding officer of the destroyer USS Maxwell (DD 525), who saves his ship when it's hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa. For repairs, they pull into Kerama Rhetto, Okinawa, where news of the war's end comes. With everyone else, Ingram expects to be shipped home. Instead, he receives orders to fly to Manila where he's met by Brig. Gen. Otis Dewitt, an Army buddy from his days on Corregidor and now intelligence aide to General Richard K Sutherland, chief of staff to General Douglas MacArthur. On Ingram's C-54 are sixteen Japanese senior military and civilian diplomats who meet with Sutherland to discuss formal surrender arrangements. Two days later, the terms are agreed with Ingram working with one of the Japanese delegates to ensure enemy mines are neutralized so the allied fleet of over two ships can enter Tokyo Bay. While Ingram is promised he can attend the ceremony in Tokyo Bay, DeWitt, in concert with the State Department, has an ulterior motive and sends him to Karafuto Island (Sakhalin to the Soviets) to defuse a Soviet attack on Hokkaido - the northernmost island of Japan's Home Islands. Ingram's old adversary Edward Dezhnev is the brigade commander responsible for laying siege to a Japanese holdout command in Toro, a natural jumping-off place for an attack on Hokkaido. Also in Toro, DeWitt explains, is Walter Boring, a Red Cross representative with two crates of overwhelming photographic evidence of Japan's experiments on live human beings in China. Ingram is expected to return Boring and those crates, but how can he when Boring is being protected by the Japanese garrison in Toro, where Dezhnev and his brigade stand ready to overpower them at any moment? As his shipmates prepare to return to their loved ones, Ingram's war continues. Three weeks earlier he was fighting the Japanese, and the Russians were supposed to be friends. Now he doesn't know who to trust.

How long is Edge of Valor?

Edge of Valor by John Gobbell is 372 pages long, and a total of 93,744 words.

This makes it 126% the length of the average book. It also has 115% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Edge of Valor Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 32 minutes to read Edge of Valor aloud.

What Reading Level is Edge of Valor?

Edge of Valor is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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