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How long does it take to read The Colonels?

W. E. B. Griffin

The Colonels by W. E. B. Griffin takes about 8 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 4 of Brotherhood of war

Previous: The Captains Next: The Berets

About 8 hours 37 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1983. 470 pages, about 129,250 words.

18 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 14 hours 22 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 37 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 23 minutes

The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the United States to forge a new type of American soldier--one to be tested on the beaches of Cuba and in a new war yet to come...

Subjects: Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, men's adventure, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, Fiction, historical, Soldiers

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