5 edition of Long gray lines found in the catalog.
Long gray lines
Rod Andrew
Published
2001
by University of North Carolina Press in Chapel Hill, N.C
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-162) and index.
| Statement | Rod Andrew, Jr. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | U409.S9 A53 2001 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | viii, 169 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 169 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL21094810M |
| ISBN 10 | 0807826103 |
| LC Control Number | 00060723 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 44681862 |
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The long gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: duty, honor, country. “The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here,” he concluded. John Ford’s The Long Gray Line, a biography of Irish immigrant Marty Maher, a sort of den father at West Point for 50 years, is loosely anecdotal, cornball, and entertaining, and has enough.
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