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1	Lords of Discipline more books like this by Pat Conroy add to wishlist A cadet's senior year at a military college not unlike The Citadel, which author Conroy attended. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Uniform Justice more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist For more than a decade Donna Leon has been a bestseller in Europe with a series of mysteries featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to solve a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption, and intrigue. In "Uniform Justice," a young cadet has been ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Into the Crucible: Making Marines for the 21st Century more books like this by James B Woulfe add to wishlist Marine boot camp training is famous for being tough, where only the best succeed. But as tough as boot camp is, there is one moment in boot camp that is the make-or-break challenge. The ultimate test called the "Crucible." Once the Crucible begins, the recruits are faced with fifty-four grueling hours with little sleep, little food, and a series ... see all copies from $6.89! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Dress gray more books like this by Lucian K Truscott, IV add to wishlist When the body of a West Point cadet is found in a nearby lake, the academy's statement is startling at odds with what his best friend knows to be true. With the big brass on his back and a minefield ahead of him, he sets out to uncover what West Point will do anything to hide. It could cost him his career as well as his life. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Inda more books like this by Sherwood Smith add to wishlist Indevan Algara-Vayir was born the second son of a powerful prince, destined to stay at home and defend his family's castle. But when war threatens, Inda is sent to the Royal Academy where he learns the art of war and finds that danger and intrigue don't only come from outside the kingdom. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| first editions \| SVS
6	In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Military more books like this by Richard Strozzi-Heckler add to wishlist In a top-secret U.S. military experiment, Richard Heckler was invited to teach Eastern awareness disciplines ranging from Aikido to meditation to a group of 25 Green Berets. This account chronicles his experiences in the training programme and his attempts to revive traditional warriorship in a technological society. His book provides insight into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.93! \| SVS
7	Honor and Duty more books like this by Gus Lee add to wishlist In this sequel to "China Boy," Kai Ting leaves San Francisco for West Point Military Academy. His brutal upbringing makes hazing look like child's play, but Kai has much more trouble with his current, everyday life: his engineering courses, a cheating scam which he is lured into, and anti-Asian sentiment during the American involvement with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words more books like this by Larry Smith add to wishlist From the sands of Iwo Jima to the deserts of Iraq, the riveting, real-life stories of training young marines open with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II. This volume offers the voices of veterans from every major war of the last sixty years, concluding with accounts of what it takes to train marines for Iraq ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Common Sense Training: A Working Philosophy for Leaders more books like this by Arthur S Collins add to wishlist The best book on military training from platoon to division level that has been published in any army.--Army Magazine see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	La Ciudad y los Perros more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist Uno de los libros basicos para emprender el estudio de la literatura hispanoamericana de la segunda mitad de este siglo es La ciudad y los perros de Mario Vargas Llosa, publicada en 1962 (Premio Biblioteca Breve y Premio de la Critica). Con esta novela Vargas Llosa alcanza el reconocimiento internacional. En ella demuestra ya una madurez literaria ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $6.00!
11 view cover	The confusions of young Torless more books like this by Robert Musil add to wishlist At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their school- fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. First published in 1906. see all copies from $2.86! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France more books like this by Kate Van Orden add to wishlist In this groundbreaking new study, Kate van Orden examines noble education in the arts to show how music contributed to cultural and social transformation in early modern French society. She constructs a fresh account of music's importance in promoting the absolutism that the French nonarchy would fully embrace under Louis XIV, uncovering many ... see all copies from $33.25! new only from $33.25! \| SVS
13	Eggnog Riot: The Christmas Mutiny at West Point more books like this by James B. Agnew add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! first editions
14 view cover	Mobile Suit Gundam Ecole Du Ciel: Volume 1 more books like this by Haruhiko Mikimoto (Illustrator) add to wishlist A father goose said to his child: "You were suppose to be a swan, so why are you still ugly?" The mother goose said, "It can't be helped." The child goose replied, "I'm a goose. Why can't I remain a goose?" The father goose said, "We received an egg from a swan. You were supposed to be a swan." The year is 0085 of the Universal Century. Asuna ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Best and the Brightest more books like this by Susan Wright add to wishlist They come from all over the Alpha Quadrant to Starfleet Academy, to prepare themselves for the challenges of the final frontier. This story introduces a new generation of cadets, among them Trill, starting the first of many lives, the reckless Hammon Titus, and a feline alien called Jefferson. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.60! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Volunteer Soldier of America more books like this by John Alexander Logan add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART I. HISTORY OF MILITARY EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. chapter{Section 4HISTORY OF MILITARY EDUCATION. CHAPTER I. WEST POINT ON THE HUDSON ITS HISTORY AS A ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $41.71! \| first editions
17	Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Lessons Learned more books like this by Joseph Psotka (Editor), L Dan Massey (Editor), Sharon A Mutter (Editor) add to wishlist The power and potential of current ITS technology is described here by the designers and builders of major ITS projects. The book illustrates how, in less than a decade, the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems has advanced from experimental systems in universities to systems that perform practical, real-world tasks. "Intelligent Tutoring ... see all copies from $6.33! new only from $90.67! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Commando more books like this by Chris Terrill add to wishlist Chris Terrill is a man in search of his limit. He's 55 years old. He is not a soldier. He is being trained by the Royal Marines and he is going to Afghanistan. The only difference is that instead of a gun, Chris will be holding a camera and filming the whole ordeal for a major TV series. The Royal Marines Commando training base in Lympstone Devon, ... see all copies from $11.69! new only from $11.69!
19 view cover	The Lies of Saints more books like this by Sigmund Brouwer add to wishlist The apparent suicide of a young cadet at the Citadel leads Nick Barrett back two decades to the disappearance of a South Carolina beauty pageant queen. Beneath the glittering exterior of the elite of Charleston lies a century-old conspiracy that will endanger Nick's life and the people he loves most. Ironically, it's the sinister past that holds ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.19! \| first editions
20 view cover	Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class in the Old South more books like this by Jennifer R Green add to wishlist This book argues that military education was an important institution in the development of the southern middle class as a regional group and as part of the national middle class in the late antebellum years. It explores class formation, professionalization, and social mobility in the 1840s and 1850s, using this data to define the middle class on ... see all copies from $26.60! new only from $40.00!
21 view cover	Duty First: West Point and the Making of American Leaders more books like this by Ed Ruggero add to wishlist In this penetrating account of a year inside one of the nation's premier schools for leaders, Ed Ruggero details the struggles of young men and women determined to become the U.S. Army officers who will lead the American soldiers of the future. Writing with deep insight and superb narrative skill, Ruggero follows their tumultuous lives: the ... see all copies from $2.38! new only from $5.44! \| first editions
22 view cover	Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights more books like this by Philippa Strum add to wishlist In June 2001, there was a decidedly new look to the graduating class at Virginia Military Institute. For the first time ever, the line of graduates who received their degrees at the "West Point of the South" included women who had spent four years at VML. For 150 years, VMI had operated as a revered, state-funded institution - an amalgam of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets more books like this by Richard Strozzi-Heckler, George Leonard (Foreword by), Richard Strozzi Heckler add to wishlist In a top-secret U.S. military experiment, Richard Heckler was invited to teach Eastern awareness disciplines ranging from Aikido to meditation to a group of 25 Green Berets. This account chronicles his experiences in the training program and his attempts to revive traditional warriorship in a technological society. His book provides insight into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99!
24 view cover	Military High Schools in America more books like this by William Trousdale add to wishlist Once considered a bastion of learning, leadership, and disciplined lifestyle, today's private military academies are often regarded as expensive holding facilities for unwanted, incorrigible boys who have nowhere else to go. Their depiction in popular media has reinforced the impression that they are boot camps disguised as educational ... see all copies from $24.54! new only from $49.66!
25	The Voroshilov Lectures: Materials from the Soviet General Staff Academy more books like this by Ghulam Dastagir Wardak add to wishlist see all copies from $9.50! new only from $50.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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