The Golden Fleece: High-Risk Adventure at West Point - Couverture rigide

Carhart, Tom

 
9781612349107: The Golden Fleece: High-Risk Adventure at West Point
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ISBN 10 : 1612349102 ISBN 13 : 9781612349107
Editeur : Potomac Books Inc, 2017

Synopsis

In the fall of 1965 West Point cadet Tom Carhart and five of his classmates from the U.S. Military Academy pulled off a feat of extraordinary ingenuity, precision, and raw guts: the theft of the billy goat mascot from their rival, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, just before the biggest football game of the year.

The U.S. forces in Vietnam were then at two hundred thousand and growing, with casualties spiking, and the men in West Point's class of 1966 were well aware that they would serve, and quite possibly die, in that far-off war. But West Point's motto, "Duty, Honor, Country," affirms that its graduates will always obey the decisions of our elected government, and the men of '66 were dutiful: of the 579 who graduated, 30 died in Vietnam and roughly five times that number were wounded. Since this would be the men's last Army-Navy football game as cadets, they wanted to go out with a bang, not a whimper.

Carhart tells the incredible true story of how, in stealing that Navy goat, the cadets unknowingly reenacted the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece from Greek mythology. The caper is interwoven with an insider's narrative about the private lives of six West Point cadets in the early 1960s, who, against all odds, hurled their last hurrah of triumph to America before flying off to fight its wretched war in Vietnam.

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À propos des auteurs

​Tom Carhart is a West Point graduate and a twice-wounded Vietnam veteran. He earned a law degree from the University of Michigan and a PhD in American and military history from Princeton University and has lived and worked in Paris, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Brussels, and Washington DC. The author of eight previous books on military history, Carhart lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Jan.

Wesley Clarkis a retired U.S. Army four-star general, Vietnam War veteran, and valedictorian of the West Point class of '66.

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Éditeur
Potomac Books Inc
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1612349102
ISBN 13 
9781612349107
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
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