Duty, Honor, Country

A History of West Point
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6293-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 701 g

A New York Times bestselling author writes about West Point.

This new paperback edition of Stephen E. Ambrose's highly regarded history of the United States Military Academy features the original foreword by Dwight D. Eisenhower and a new afterword by former West Point superintendent Andrew J. Goodpaster.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ambrose, Stephen E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Beginning
Chapter 2. The Foundling
Chapter 3. Alden Partridge
Chapter 4. Sylvanus Thayer
Chapter 5. Thayer's Curriculum and Faculty
Chapter 6. The Jacksonians and the Academy
Chapter 7. The Golden Age, 1840–1860
Chapter 8. Cadet Life
Chapter 9. Civil War
Chapter 10. Stagnation
Chapter 11. Hazing and the Negro Cadets
Chapter 12. From Cuba To France
Chapter 13. Douglas MacArthur
Chapter 14. Implementing The MacArthur Reforms
Chapter 15. Football
Chapter 16. The Modern Academy
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations

Über Autor(innen)

Ambrose, Stephen E
Stephen E. Ambrose (1936–2002) was the author of many books on American history, including Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West and Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945, as well as Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point, which was also published by Johns Hopkins. He was the founder of the National D-Day Museum, in New Orleans.

Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of many books on American history, including Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West and Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945. He is also the founder of the National D-Day Museum, in New Orleans.