How long does it take to read The Captains?
The Captains by W. E. B. Griffin takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Brotherhood of war
Previous: The Lieutenants Next: The Colonels
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It was more than an incident. It was a deadly assault across the 38th parallel. It was the Korean War. In the fear and frenzy of battle, those who had served with heroism before were called again by America to man the trenches and sandbag bunkers. From Pusan to the Yalu, they drove forward with commands too new and tanks too old: brothers in war, bonded together in battle as they had never been in peace...
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, men's adventure, Fiction, general
