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The Long Gray Line - 20th Edition by Rick Atkinson (Paperback)

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  • The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson.
  • About the Author: Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of The Guns at Last Light, An Army at Dawn (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History), The Day Of Battle, In the Company of Soldiers and Crusade.
  • 624 Pages
  • History, Military

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About the Book



"The American journey of West Point's class of 1966"--Cover.



Book Synopsis



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 MacArthur, 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



Review Quotes




"Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist's brilliance... A very moving book." --James Salter, The Washington Post Book World

"A story of epic proportions [and] awesome feat of biographical reconstruction... A difficult book to put down." --Cullen Murphy, The Boston Globe

"The Long Gray Line is a profoundly moving saga in which the U.S. Military Academy at West Point stands center stage. In mufti or olive drab, at peace or war, amidst joy or grief, in life or death, the academy shapes all. The author has captured its ethos. If you want to see a slice of the nation's manhood in a drama of troubled times and find its heart, feel its emotions, sense its dilemmas, then read this book. It is a stunning story." --Colin L. Powell

"More of a biography of a generation than of a class at West Point... Stark, shocking, jolting." --John Eisenhower, Chicago Tribune (front page review)

"Journalism elevated to narrative history, a book like Neil Sheehan's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Bright Shining Lie. But better." --USA Today

"A work as masterfully executed as it was conceived." --Philadelphia Inquirer




About the Author



Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of The Guns at Last Light, An Army at Dawn (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History), The Day Of Battle, In the Company of Soldiers and Crusade. His many other awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, the George Polk Award, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. A former staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post, he lives in Washington, D.C.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x 1.5 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.55 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 624
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Military
Publisher: Picador USA
Theme: United States
Format: Paperback
Author: Rick Atkinson
Language: English
Street Date: October 27, 2009
TCIN: 77274317
UPC: 9780805091229
Item Number (DPCI): 247-54-2259
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.5 inches length x 5.4 inches width x 8.4 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.55 pounds
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