Former Secretary of the Navy, Navy Cross recipientand Marine officer , Webb lit the fires of controversy with this startling inside look at life at the U.S. Naval Academy when A Sense of Honor was first published in 1981. Some of his fellow Academy graduates attacked it as exaggerated and extreme, but Webb's portrayal of a gung-ho first classman's campaign to shepherd an unprepared plebe through the academy's complex and unforgiving ethos was hailed as a ‘considerable achievement’ by the New York Times and ‘a remarkable moral statement’ by the Boston Globe. Show More
ISBN: | 9781557509178 |
Publication date: | 30th May 1995 |
Author: | James H. Webb |
Publisher: | Naval Institute Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 308 pages |
Series: | Bluejacket Books |
Genres: |
War, combat and military adventure fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction |