"Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist's
brilliance . . . A very moving book." --James Salter, "The
Washington Post Book World"
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 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.
An immediate "New York Times" bestseller upon its original
publication, the twentieth anniversary edition includes a new
foreword by the author.
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