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West Point & Air Force Academy
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- Vietnam strategy
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The worst I can say about this
book is that it is a good read. From another perspective, "Of Honor
and Dishonor" awakens and explores feelings well familiar to those of
us growing up during the Vietnam years. Mr. Crocco tells the story through
the eyes of a West Point cadet, but it could be any one's story. A
reader from Indianapolis, In USA
Ex-infantryman Ruggero (who "writes
about wars and warriors with the same I-have-been-there, no-nonsense authority as
Hemingway" - Col. David H. Hackworth, USA [Ret.], New York Times bestselling
author of About Face) momentarily abandons Major Mark Isen, protagonist of his estimable
Army series (Breaking Ranks, 1995, etc.), for an absorbing tale of sociopolitical intrigue
set at the US Military Academy.
A must read for anyone interested in a sneak peek of USMA!
As a grad (USMA ’94), I can attest to the accuracy of Mr. Ruggero’s description
of West Point and his anecdotes of life there as a cadet. His characters are so well
developed that I could swear Wayne Holder is my husband! (He, too, was a very laid
back, reluctant leader who was well known with the women…) I could substitute
every character with someone I knew at West Point and in the Army, and that always makes a
book more interesting. The plot was a little far-fetched, but Ed even makes that
believable. This book brought back many memories and stirred up many emotions.
I read it from start to finish over one night – I couldn’t put it down
until I finished. If you want the nitty gritty on what it is really like being a
cadet at West Point (embellished with some out of the ordinary danger and excitement), you
should read this book! And, yes, we do chant “blood makes the grass grow”!
Enigmatic customs, arcane rituals, seemingly archaic
attitudes; the secrets that hide within the walls of the Army's prestigious West Point
Academy hold tremendous intrigue for the civilian. So much happens to which we will never
be privy. So what happens when you take the rigid military school, with its
all-important decree of "Duty, honor, and country," and throw in a murder,
conniving Congressmen, and perhaps a sex scandal or two? You end up with Lucian
Truscott's complex mystery, Full Dress Gray, a compelling novel in which the twists and
turns hang on the subtleties of military life.
Ry Slaight, the hero of Dress Gray, returns to West Point Academy 30 years older and quite
a few ranks higher. As a lieutenant general -- and the new superintendent -- Slaight
faces the challenge of running a new kind of military academy -- one that includes a
multi-ethnic and somewhat feminised body of cadets. On his first day in charge, a
young woman collapses in a military parade. What is at first assumed to be a rather
typical case of heatstroke, turns out to be a death from unknown causes. When it's
discovered the cadet had sex with multiple men the night before her death, Slaight is
challenged to find out exactly what's been going on at his academy.
Book Index - West Point - West Point Sword
You may be looking for the famous generals of the US civil
war, the hunt for Osama bin
Laden, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis
or the
holocaust,
Vietnam or the Second World War, weapons through the
ages, US Military
Regulation Dress Swords, Medieval
Swords, costumes and uniforms,
Napoleon Bonaparte, the French
Revolution, Masonic Pope
or
Royal Regalia or GI Joe.
Australian Order of Precedence
Missile Crisis in Cuba - President John F. Kennedy - Bay of Pigs
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