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In A Time Of War: The Proud And Perilous Journey Of West Point's Class Of 2002 (2008)

by Bill Murphy Jr.(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

080508679X (ISBN13: 9780805086799)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

review 1: Having a personal connection to the war in Afghanistan, this book hit close to home on several occasions. Some of the quotes from the main characters are things I've said or experienced myself. The writing is very moving, and I cried several times throughout the book. The stories of these young people's lives is extraordinary. The sacrifices that so many have made, and the pain and agony that has been endured by so many families is heartbreaking.The only thing I struggled with was the large number of individuals in this book. It's hard to keep everyone straight at times, especially since it's not a fast read and takes awhile to get through. Each of those characters plays an important role in telling the story, though, and they are all necessary.
review 2: I tea... morech at West Point, and I read this book to learn about the world my students face after graduation. It happpens that none of the individuals in the book were my students, but I recognize the type. In their senior year, these cadets found themselves graduating into an ongoing shooting war, the first to do so since Vietnam. It's a world of long hours, arduous and dangerous duty, grievous wounds and death, tight and long-lasting friendships, the fraught business of finding one's lifetime companion, the unconsolable grief of young widows, and the satisfactions of leading soldiers. After their five-year service commitment is up, it seems that most get out, unready to face more combat tours and family separations, and one can hardly blame them. The rest find themselves captains, mentoring a new group of young lieutenants. This is a worthy book giving a lieutenant's-eye view of the War on Terror. less

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