"A story of epic proportions and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."-- The Boston Globe A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point Class of 1966.
A former staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post , he lives in Washington, D.
C..
His many other awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, the George Polk Award, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award.
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 About the Author: Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of The Guns at Last Light , An Army at Dawn (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History) , The Day Of Battle, In the Company of Soldiers and Crusade .
Westmoreland, and a score of other memorable figures.
The rich cast of characters also includes Douglas MacArthur, William C.
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. "A story of epic proportions and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."-- The Boston Globe A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point Class of 1966
