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Ricks, Thomas E.

 
9780375505447: A Soldier's Duty
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ISBN 10: 037550544X ISBN 13: 9780375505447
Editorial: Random House Inc, 2001

Sinopsis

A powerful novel from one of the nation's most respected military journalists exposes the "culture wars" raging within the Pentagon as two young combat officers, Majors Cindy Sherman and Bud Lewis, discover the dangerous politics within the military and become embroiled in a deadly game that holds the future of the American military hostage. 75,000 first printing.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Thomas E. Ricks lectures widely to the military and is a member of Harvard University’s Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. He is the author of the bestselling book Making the Corps. He lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife and children.

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Sherman and Bud Lewis are the best young combat officers the army has, and they ve both been tapped for plum positions as aides-de-camp for two of the Pentagon s most senior generals. The Pentagon is a cauldron of careerist jockeying and factional squabbling in the best of times, though, and these are not the best of times. A president whom the officer class widely loathes sits in the White House, and grumblings that he s steering the military onto the rocks are growing louder. Some officers are openly asking: If you believe the president is betraying his country, where does your duty lie?

Just as Sherman and Lewis ease into their jobs and into a deepening romance a secret pressure group of military officers called the Sons of Liberty begins to carry out covert protests, symbolic at first, against White House policy. It is with shock that Lewis comes to suspect the group s leader is his own boss and hero, General B.Z. Ames, and that the man in

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Editorial
Random House Inc
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
037550544X
ISBN 13 
9780375505447
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
250
Contacto del fabricante
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