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The Art of War is listed on the US Marine Corps Professional Reading Program (formerly known as the Commandant's Reading List). It is recommended reading for all United States Military Intelligence personnel. [25] The Art of War is also used as instructional material at the United States Military Academy (commonly known as West Point), in the ...
The book was named to the Reading List of the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. [30] A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain (Free Press, 2005; Oxford University Press, 2006); [31] nominated for La Corónica award. Heroic Living: Discover Your Purpose and Change the World (2010) [32]
The book appears on the Commandant's required reading list for all Staff Sergeants and Gunnery Sergeants [2] in the United States Marine Corps, and frequently serves as a text for cadets in leadership classes at West Point. A television miniseries based on the book was aired on NBC in 1976, with actor Sam Elliott portraying Sam Damon.
PS3566.R3944 G38 1998. Gates of Fire is a 1998 historical fiction novel by Steven Pressfield that recounts the Battle of Thermopylae through Xeones, a perioikos [1] (free but non-citizen inhabitant of Sparta) born in Astakos, [2] and one of only three Greek survivors of the battle. Gates of Fire stresses the literary themes of fate and irony as ...
DS557.8.I18 M66 1992. We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: la Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam is a 1992 book by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and war journalist Joseph L. Galloway about the Vietnam War. It focuses on the role of the First and Second Battalions of the 7th Cavalry Regiment in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley ...
Carl Epting Mundy Jr. (July 16, 1935 – April 2, 2014) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 30th Commandant of the Marine Corps and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from July 1, 1991, until his retirement on June 30, 1995, after 42 years of service. He was notable for his opposition to military service by ...
The Forgotten Soldier. The Forgotten Soldier (1965), originally published in French as Le soldat oublié, is an account by Guy Sajer (pseudonym of Guy Mouminoux) of his experiences as a German soldier on the Eastern Front during World War II. With reference to the author's ambiguous relationship to war, the book has been called "the account of ...
The Vatican named Schindler's List among the most important 45 films ever made. [151] A Channel 4 poll named Schindler's List the ninth greatest film of all time, [6] and it ranked fourth in their 2005 war films poll. [152] The film was named the best of 1993 by critics such as James Berardinelli, [153] Roger Ebert, [88] and Gene Siskel. [154]