The gripping stories in this book detail the 200 year history of the United States Military Academy at WestPoint, capturing the raw physical courage of graduates in the face of death. Tom Carhart was the winner of two Purple Hearts in Vietnam.
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"...Carhart reveals the true meaning of "Duty, Honor, Country" by profiling the selfless service of nearly two dozen West Pointers." -- Lieutenant General Dave R. Palmer (Ret.), former superintendent, United States Military Academy, 1986-1991
"...provides gripping insights into the human stories of Academy graduates who put their lives on the line for their country." -- Gil Dorland, author of Legacy of Discord: Voices of the Vietnam War Era and Duty, Honor, Company: West Point Fundamentals for Business Success
"A book every American should read... it will make you proud of America's soldiers and their leaders." -- Lieutenant Colonel Julian M. Olejniczak (Ret.), editor in chief, ASSEMBLY Magazine
"Tom Carhart has captured the ethos of West Point." -- Colonel Seth F. Hudgins, Jr. (Ret.), president & COO, Association of Graduates, United States Military Academy
"...provides gripping insights into the human stories of Academy graduates who put their lives on the line for their country." -- Gil Dorland, author of Legacy of Discord: Voices of the Vietnam War Era and Duty, Honor, Company: West Point Fundamentals for Business Success
"A book every American should read... it will make you proud of America's soldiers and their leaders." -- Lieutenant Colonel Julian M. Olejniczak (Ret.), editor in chief, ASSEMBLY Magazine
"Tom Carhart has captured the ethos of West Point." -- Colonel Seth F. Hudgins, Jr. (Ret.), president & COO, Association of Graduates, United States Military Academy
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Duty, Honor, Country, ........and Boredom?,
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This review is from: West Point Warriors: Profiles of Duty, Honor, and Country in Battle (Mass Market Paperback)
How do you take the the exploits of heroic graduates of the United States Military Academy and manage to make it boring? Author Tom Carhart manages, on a book that features just plain bad writing on so very many different levels.There's the chapter on Henry Flipper, the first African-American USMA grad, which is a warmed over re-write of Carhart doctorial dissertation. There are the chapters on the giants -- Lee, Grant, MacArthur -- which provide only meager details (MacArthur was involved in a Congressional investigation of hazing while a cadet; you'd think that would earn mention in a book titled WEST POINT WARRIORS, but you won't find it here). There's the embarassingly gushing chapter on Colonel "Red" Reeder, with a would-be novelist's attempts at narrative and dialogue. And finally, there's the final two-thirds of the book, which show that there's a lot more to good oral history besides turning on a tape recorder. Top it off with the author parading his own "pet rock" idea (add a graduate school for military history at USMA), and you just have one big thudding blunder of a book. On the bright side, it did make me want to go back to the teenage section of my local library and find "Red" Reeder's WEST POINT PLEBE to reread.
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Just Didn't Grab Me,
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This review is from: West Point Warriors: Profiles of Duty, Honor, and Country in Battle (Mass Market Paperback)
Sorry, but I feel the need to say this mass market paperback is, at best, so-so. Except for a few well known figures, it is mostly like reading a dictionary, or a who's-who about --- who cares? Maybe it's just me, but it just didn't grab me. Sorry.
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This review is from: West Point Warriors: Profiles of Duty, Honor, and Country in Battle (Mass Market Paperback)
OK as another of already many well known sources of well known information on well known Generals. How did it ever get published? So much for merit... Takes the exploits of U. S. Military Academy graduates and manages to make them boring. And, I was surprised at how poor, almost amateurish, the writing was. That said, everyone likes military warriors and heroes. It could rate another star or two if an editor or someone helped put the information on paper in a more interesting way.
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AS SAD AS ART PARKER'S DEATH WAS, his is one of many similar stories of West Point graduates who did exactly what they were educated and trained to do-risk their lives in combat for "Duty, Honor, Country." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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West Point, United States, Air Force, North Vietnamese, Duc Pho, Special Forces, South Vietnam, General Marshall, Viet Cong, Air Cav, Colonel Luckett, White House, Tarin Kot, Saint Martin, Judge Sullivan, Red Reeder, Black Horse, Beast Barracks, Fort Davis, New York City, Fort Benning, King Company, Little Round Top, Mexico City, Tom White New!
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AS SAD AS ART PARKER'S DEATH WAS, his is one of many similar stories of West Point graduates who did exactly what they were educated and trained to do-risk their lives in combat for "Duty, Honor, Country." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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West Point, United States, Air Force, North Vietnamese, Duc Pho, Special Forces, South Vietnam, General Marshall, Viet Cong, Air Cav, Colonel Luckett, White House, Tarin Kot, Saint Martin, Judge Sullivan, Red Reeder, Black Horse, Beast Barracks, Fort Davis, New York City, Fort Benning, King Company, Little Round Top, Mexico City, Tom White New!
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- Pork Chop Hill by S. Marshall on 5 pages
- Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW by James N. Rowe on page 264, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- South Carolina: The Palmetto State (Guide to American States) by Janice Parker in Front Matter, page 226, and page 280
- San Antonio (A Downtown America Book) by Sally Lee on page 26, and page 28
- West Point: A Bicentennial History (Modern War Studies) by Theodore J. Crackel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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