Westpoint Warriors (Paperback)

THE FATHER-Sylvanus Thayer, appointed in 1817 as the fourth superintendent of West Point, who established the first real academic standards and a formal structure that prevailed well into the twentieth century.

THE ENGINEER-Eleazar Derby Wood, who drove British forces from Fort Erie at the cost of his life in the War of 1812.

THE OUTSIDER-Henry O. Flipper, who in 1877 became the first black man to graduate, was wrongfully court-martialed and driven from the army on racist grounds, and died before receiving a presidential pardon a century later.

THE PATRIOT-Nicholas S. H. Krawciw, who was born in the Ukraine and immigrated to the U.S. from postwar Germany with the dream of attending West Point.

THE FAMILY MAN-Dave Ramsay, who sent poignant letters and tapes to his wife back home before his fighter-bomber crashed on a Vietnam night mission.

TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF VALOR

When America must be defended, the men of West Point are there. From the War of 1812 to the twenty-first-century fight against terrorism at home and abroad, in the heat of battle and in the face of certain death, they give ever-renewed meaning to the West Point motto, "Duty, Honor, Country." They range from the celebrated, like Robert E. Lee and Douglas MacArthur, to the unsung, including Patrick H. O'Rorke, who stunned the Confederates at Little Round Top with a ferocious and gallant charge that stopped their advance; Russell P. Reeder, Jr., who led his regiment ashore at Normandy and valiantly fought German forces before losing a leg; and Joseph G. Clemons, Jr., who commanded an infantry company that held off the enemy on Pork Chop Hill in Korea. They-and many more-were all West Point warriors, men who led America's soldiers through this nation's wars and who protect us to this day with selfless sacrifice and unbounded bravery.

WEST POINT WARRIORS

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