The
Long Gray Line
The American Journey of West Point's
Class of 1966Published by Owl Books
The first trade paperback edition of the New
York Times best-seller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Rick Atkinson.
This is the story of the twenty-five-year
adventure of the generation of officers who fought in Vietnam. With novelistic
detail, Atkinson tells the story of West Point's Class of 1966 primarily through
the experiences of three classmates and the women they loved -- from the
boisterous cadet years and youthful romances to the fires of Vietnam, where
dozens of their classmates died and hundreds more grew disillusioned, to the
hard peace and family adjustments that followed. The rich cast of characters
includes Douglas MacArthur, William Westmoreland, and a score of other memorable
figures. The West Point Class of 1966 straddled a fault line in American
history, and Rick Atkinson's masterly book speaks for a generation of American
men and women about innocence, patriotism, and the price we pay for our dreams.
Reviews
"A work as masterfully executed as
it was conceived." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Journalism elevated to narrative history, a book like Neil Sheehan's Pulitzer
Prize-winning A Bright Shining Lie. But better." --USA Today
"A story of epic proportions . . . An awesome feat of biographical
reconstruction. The Long Gray Line is a difficult book to put down." --Cullen
Murphy, The Boston Globe
Paperback
598 pages
$16.00US
Pub Date: October 1999
ISBN: 0-8050-6291-2
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