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"West Point's true character was revealed in winter when, alone with itself, it became n monastery for men of action who were too energetic for the contemplative life and too passionate to live carelessly among the hnwkers and workers of the everyday world. They created their own world, with its own language and rituals, its own trials of the flesh, its own shibboleths, its private standards of honor and dishonor. "
In ]uly of 1969 fourteen hundred men entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. Against a backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Peace Movement, and anti—war protests that tore families apart, they learned the meaning of duty, honor and country. This is the riveting story of that tumultuous year as seen through the eyes of Phil DeAngelo, a naive mid-western youth who has wanted to go to West Point since he was nine years old. The crucible of the Plebe year forces him to come to grips with a wider world where good and evil often co-exist, and where each man must find his own. often lonelv, way
"West Point's true character was revealed in winter when, alone with itself, it became n monastery for men of action who were too energetic for the contemplative life and too passionate to live carelessly among the hnwkers and workers of the everyday world. They created their own world, with its own language and rituals, its own trials of the flesh, its own shibboleths, its private standards of honor and dishonor. "
In ]uly of 1969 fourteen hundred men entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. Against a backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Peace Movement, and anti—war protests that tore families apart, they learned the meaning of duty, honor and country. This is the riveting story of that tumultuous year as seen through the eyes of Phil DeAngelo, a naive mid-western youth who has wanted to go to West Point since he was nine years old. The crucible of the Plebe year forces him to come to grips with a wider world where good and evil often co-exist, and where each man must find his own. often lonelv, way
Publication
PublishAmerica (2002), 174 pages
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Physical description
8.5 inches