The Long Gray Line - Softcover

Atkinson, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805062912 ISBN 13: 9780805062915

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1999

Synopsis

An evocative narrative follows the careers of three young officers from West Point's class of 1966 through graduation and into the hardships, heroism, and heartbreak of the Vietnam war. Reprint.

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Review:

"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

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""

"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, a former staff reporter and assistant managing editor at The Washington Post, and the author of Crusade (1993), has won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1982. He is currently at work on The Liberation Trilogy, a three-volume history of the American Army in World War II. He lives in Washington, D.C.


Rick Atkinson, recipient of the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, is the bestselling author of The Day Of Battle, An Army at Dawn, and In the Company of Soldiers. He was a staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post for twenty years, and his many awards include Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and history. He lives in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0805062912
• ISBN 13: 9780805062915
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 598