wow this is great. better than [[Army At Dawn]], I even think. Atkinson cribs from "Full Metal Jacket" and follows a single intake unit from recruitment to training to Ranger school to 'Nam, and then to the 80s low-point of Army morale, and does so in stunning, erudite prose that reference Kabuki at...
One of the hazards of being Santa Claus in a library is that one sees all sorts of interesting items in between promises for Barbie dolls and AK-47s. I happened to run across Rick Atkinson's Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966 in the Forreston Public Library. This is ...
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