Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point - Couverture rigide

Robbins, James

 
9781594031410: Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 159403141X ISBN 13 : 9781594031410
Editeur : Encounter Books,USA, 2006

Synopsis

Today's Goat, the West Point cadet finishing at the bottom of his class, is temporary celebrity among his classmates. But in the 19th century, he was something of a cult figure. Custer's contemporaries at the Academy believed that the same spirit of adventure that led him to carouse at local taverns motivated his dramatic cavalry attacks in the Civil War and afterwards. And the same willingness to accept punishment from Academy authorities also sent George Pickett into the teeth of the Union guns at Gettsyburg. The story James S. Robbins tells goes from the beginnings of West Point through the carnage of the Civil War to the grassy bluffs over the Little Big Horn. The Goats he profiles tell us much about the soul of the American solider, his daring, imagination and desire to prove himself against high odds.

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Éditeur
Encounter Books,USA
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
159403141X
ISBN 13 
9781594031410
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
500
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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