Binding: Paperback
Description: The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson. " A story of epic proportions and an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction." The Boston Globe A classic of its kind The Long Gray Line is the twenty - five - year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail Rick Atkinson (author of the Liberation Trilogy) illuminates this powerful story through the lives of three classmates and the women they loved from the boisterous cadet years to the fires of Vietnam to the hard peace and internal struggles that followed the war. The rich cast of characters also includes Douglas Mac Arthur William C. Westmoreland and a score of other memorable figures. The class of 1966 straddled a fault line in American history and Atkinson's masterly book speaks for a generation of American men and women about innocence patriotism and the price we pay for our dreams
Title: The Long Gray Line The American Journey Of West Point's Class Of 1966
Author(s): Atkinson Rick
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9780805091229
Pages: 624 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/27/2009
Category: Vietnam War