The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966.
ATKINSON, Rick.
The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966.
First Edition of The Long Gray Line; inscribed by Rick Atkinson in the year of publication
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989.
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First edition of the historian’s first book, which was reviewed by James Salter as “enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist’s brilliance, the pages literally hurry before one.” Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper to a member of the West Point Class of 1929, “To Edgar Wright, Jr. – Class of ’29. Best wishes, Rick Atkinson – 14 Oct ’89.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Rick Atkinson’s 'The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966' (1989) is a sweeping nonfiction narrative that traces the lives of a generation of U.S. Military Academy graduates from their cadet years through the Vietnam War and into middle age. Drawing on extensive interviews and archival research, Atkinson follows key figures from the class as they face the moral, emotional, and physical challenges of combat, the disillusionment of a divisive war, and the struggle to reconcile duty with personal loss. "More than any book I have ever read, 'The Long Gray Line' reveals the true heart and soul of the military" (Bob Woodward, author of 'Veil').
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