Shadows of Glory

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Trouble in the North

stopping to smell the roses pays off

So-So Sophmore Story

Parry Does it Again

LIFELESS

Shadows of Glory
Owen Parry
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ASIN: 0380820870
Release Date: 2001-09-04

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In a snow-swept Northern town, Union officer Major Abel Jones struggles to solve the riddle of Federal agents tortured to death, an act of stunning brutality cloaked in fear and lies. Confronted with murder and madness, sedition and seances, selfless patriotism and haunting passions, Abel is duty-bound to succeed, even though the ghosts of his own past-when his uniform was scarlet and not blue-are waiting for him. From the dr ma of Civil War Washington and a divided home front, to the hardship and triumph of Grant's capture of Fort Donelson, Shadows of Glory magnificently conjures up an American past -- and brings it to ravishing life with matchless authenticity and storytelling power.

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Trouble in the North.......2006-12-08

This author has a great sense of style. He immerses you in the setting and the story. You see, hear, smell, taste, and touch the scenes in this story set in the winter of 1861-62. In the first book in this series, Faded Coat of Blue, we met Captain Abel Jones of the US Army, but he is no cardboard figure. In the author's hands, we see Jones as a real person, with faults and fears and feelings that make him real and understandable. The story is simple. Jones, now a Major, is sent to Penn Yan in northern New York State to investigate reports of an Irish rebellion against the war. Two secret agents sent there previously have been exposed and murdered, but Jones arrives in full uniform, with no hiding what he is investigating. The winter is bitter cold, and danger seems to be around every corner, but Jones plods forward with his investigation. He finds no evidence of an Irish rebellion, but uncovers something far more threatening to the survival of the United States. If you are willing to sit back and enjoy a good story, this is for you.

stopping to smell the roses pays off.......2005-03-16

I was in a supermarket in college park, maryland just after thanksgiving when I was desperate for a quick read and perused the paperback selection. Being a Civil War fanatic, I bought this book on impulse perfectly willing to accept a lightweight, fluff read for the afternoon. Imagine my surprise when I found out that this book just grabbed ahold of me and didn't let go until the last page. What Mr. Parry has done is nothing short of mastering the form of first person narrative and has inspired me to begin working on my first novel, also set during the Civil War period.

So-So Sophmore Story.......2004-01-23

Parry's Civil War mystery series continues with this second volume (after Faded Coat of Blue), which once again has Union Army officer Abel Jones investigating murder most foul. The Welshman is a meticulously honest and scrupulous officer (bordering on the priggish), who has been enlisted in the Union's secret service. Here he is sent by Secretary of State William Seward to the far north of New York's Finger Lakes district to find out who killed a Union spy there, and if there's an Irish rebellion brewing. Soon he finds himself highly distracted by an Irish "spiritualist" woman who claims to see spirits hovering around Jones. I'm not a huge fan of this kind of supernaturalism, and it detracts from the gritty authenticity Parry labors so hard to construct in other ways.

Similarly, although he again does a nice job of creating some well-developed supporting characters, such as a local sheriff, a jittery preacher, and a very smart black coachman, Parry also falls into that most regrettable trap of the historical novelist-unnecessarily turning real life historical personages into supporting players in his tale. The military and political figures who pop up in the first book are all there in service of the story, but here we meet Frederick Douglas and Susan B. Anthony. Douglas plays a particularly large role, and there's no real need for him to be so involved in the plot, as opposed to a more anonymous character. Another ill-advised device is the use of letters from Jones' friend Mick Tyrone, who is assigned to Gen. Grant's medical corps. Through these, Parry tries to hammer home the point that while Jones rides around the winter wonderland of New York, there is a gruesome, horrific war on elsewhere. Tyrone's letters are full of all the gory details-lest Jones forget why he's spying.

I loved the first book in this series, but I'm afraid I didn't care that much for this one. Aside from the three flaws above (and I do recognize that others may not consider them flaws), this book had very little suspense or pace compared to Faded Coat of Blue. It's altogether much more concerned with moodiness and inner turmoil than it is with the actual mystery. Things play out achingly slowly until the very end, when a very intriguing plot is finally revealed. Told from Jones' perspective, the language is once again rich and full of the Welshman's idiom, cadence, and prejudices. His story continues in Call Each River Jordan, Honor's Kingdom, Bold Sons of Erin and further to come).

Parry Does it Again.......2003-12-16

Like with the first book (Faded Coat of Blue, Owen Parry manges to present a reasonable picture of what civil war America could have been like. It is as close as any or us are likely to get without a time machine. This time the action takes place in up state New York. A rebellion of the Irish is suspected and two agents have already been killed before Able Jones even arrives. Parry introduces historical figures we have read about in a lively and interesting way. He sneaks in history lessons painlessly. This would be useful in a high school setting. Some reviewers complain about the pace, but I believe it is appropriate to the time and place described. This is a series well worth investigating.

LIFELESS.......2003-11-20

Okay, Owen Parry certainly knows his Civil War history. And even though I enjoyed his first novel, "Faded Coat of Blue," I could not get interested in this novel, so unfortunately, I abandoned it mid-way through. Why? In spite of the marvelous character of Abel Jones, there was no suspense in the first half, nothing to really reach out and grab me, make me want to find out anything, because up to this point, the mystery has been so secondary. Page after page of musings and elaborately drawn scenarios, but no real focusing on plot. Characters and situations are introduced and then left unattended. I'm sure somewhere in the book, we find out a little more about the victims, but sorry guys I couldn't keep from snoring on this one!

In Glory's Shadow: The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America

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Disjointed and Polemical
Insightful Analysis of Life in Soutnern Military Culture
What you would expect

In Glory's Shadow: The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America
Catherine S. Manegold
Manufacturer: Vintage
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In the Company of Men: A Woman at the Citadel

ASIN: 0679767142
Release Date: 2001-01-09

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In Glory's Shadow explores the history of The Citadel, an institution set on preserving tradition in the face of profound change. Established as protection against slave insurrections feared by the white minority of Charleston, South Carolina, a generation later The Citadel was a school of privilege for young white men. Through two world wars it grew in size and reputation, proudly providing the United States with (male) military leaders, paying little heed to what was happening in the country around it.

In 1993, when the school rescinded Shannon Faulkner's admission because of her gender, a landmark legal battle ensued. Faulkner won, and although she faced vicious harassment and left after a week, The Citadel was forced to reform: nearly 30 women have graduated since her brief time at The Citadel. In Glory's Shadow is an engrossing and illuminating look at this pivotal event in military history and the history of women.

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Disjointed and Polemical.......2002-09-25

This book sets out to be many things. It succeeds at none of them. As a result, it's not only disjointed and confusing, but soaked through with bias as well.

One the one hand, author Catherine S. Manegold, a defense reporter for the New York Times, writes of the fight over the admission of Shannon Faulkner to The Citadel as a metaphor of South versus North. At the same time, she presents the chronology of a legal battle. And a biography of Ms Faulkner. And a sociological study of life at a military college. If Ms Manegold had concentrated on any one of these things, the book might have been more successful.

But apparently she couldn't decide which tack to take, and so the book ends up muddled. Long biographical introductions are given to people who end up playing minor parts in the drama. Lines are drawn for a conflict of cultures -- hidebound, traditional, inbred, hypocritical Charleston versus dynamic, hip, multicultural, liberal New York City -- but this allegory is abandoned as soon as it's developed. The central legal battles are disposed of in a series of 'the lawyers said ... the judges said,' and then, presto!, Ms Faulkner is in the door.

Ms Faulkner herself is the central figure in this drama, but at the end of the book, many questions about her remain unanswered. Did she apply to The Citadel purely on a whim, as it seems at first? Did she want the luster that comes with a Citadel ring (The Ring is almost Wagnerian in its significance), the 'network' and 'connections,' without understanding that the network depends on the shared experience of surviving the Citadel? Were her energies so focused on the legal fight that she was unprepared for what she found when she got in? When she left The Citadel, she complained that she had no friends in the school or the Corps. Was she really so naïve as to expect the school she and her lawyers had spent years attacking to offer her a warm embrace once she battered the doors down? None of these questions are adequately answered. It's not even clear whether the days Ms Faulkner spent in the infirmary were due to heat stroke, a mental or emotional breakdown, physical collapse, or something else entirely.

Instead, we get strange asides, like the bizarre suggestion that harassment of Ms Faulkner was connected to Caribbean voodoo rituals. Or four irrelevant pages rehashing the charges against one of the Left's favorite targets, the School of the Americas.

Interestingly, two of the most evocative sections of the book -- a harrowing account of Hell Week and the strangely moving epilogue 'Fear is like a Tree' -- contain barely a mention of Ms Faulkner at all.

Most Americans probably don't have real strong feelings about The Citadel one way or another. On the extremes, though, are people who really, really love the school, and others who really, really hate it. It's pretty clear whose side Ms Manegold is on.

Unlike Dr Laura Fairchild Brodie, who wrote about 'assimilation' of women at VMI, Ms Manegold is not 'the band director's wife.' Not, that is, someone who knows the story from the inside. She seems not to have even residual sympathy for The Citadel as an institution, for the young men (and women) who attend it, or for the administrators wrestling with how to adapt to a society that has rejected nearly everything they value. Considering the patronizing, even sneering, tone she sometimes takes toward the military and people who serve in it, it's surprising Ms Manegold could have endured a career as a defense reporter.

As Ms Manegold tells it, the original sin of The Citadel was to have been founded for the purpose of training militias in the suppression of slave revolts and the perpetuation of the planter-dominated caste system. The Citadel apparently is tainted by this sin forever, and neither the school nor the author can ever overcome it: she mentions it frequently, often gratuitously. After the War and the end of slavery, The Citadel turned inward, and cadets practiced on one another the social suppression and physical abuse they could no longer impose on slaves. This is what passes for sociological analysis in this book.

That's too bad, because there is clearly an interesting and important story here. Maybe someday, someone will find a more effective, less polemical, way to tell it. In the meantime, read Nancy Mace's book instead.

Insightful Analysis of Life in Soutnern Military Culture.......2001-12-10

Catherine Manegold has written a mesmerizing story of the first female applicant to the Citadel, a southern military college located in Charleston, South Carolina. It traces the history and traditions of a formerly exclusive male domain with all the painful insights needed to fully explain the trauma and degradation which go into initiation into such an oppressive
culture. You will be amazed, you will be shocked at the measures
taken in an effort to refuse to enter the 20th century. She exposes us to the cyclical and circular patterns of what it means
to wear the Citadel ring. In this system men are traumatized by life outside the code, estanblished by the process of indoctrination, to the degree that many of them come back to alma mater as teachers and administrators in order to perpetuate the way of life they hold so dear beacuse they can't make it anywhere else. It is frightening, even terrifying, to learn about the code of silence and the extent to which these men will go to protect their patriarchal, domineering society. Manegold makes very real something so foreign to modern culture. Her painstaking analysis of the whys and wherefores of Shannon Faullkner's attempt to break the gender barrier is the best you will find anywhere. It's well worth the read, but be prepared to lose some sleep when you learn this medieval approach to military education still exists in today's USA.

What you would expect.......2001-10-27

This book was rarely accurate and hardly worth the time I took reading it. Preaching from a single-minded point of view, the author professes to understand a culture and institution where she is an outsider. Having experienced The Citadel experience first hand, I can assure you it is one that is not easily explained to the outsider. Perhaps I am being a bit harsh, but quite a few of the points made in this book reflect upon a mind set that I can not comprehend. Read for yourselves, but I also implore you to keep an open mind about a school that has produced some of the finest patriots of the United States.

A Shadow of Glory: Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust

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A Shadow of Glory: Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust
Tod Linafelt
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415937949

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bbWhat role might the New Testament have played in the cultural history of anti-Semitism that culminated in the Holocaust? And how has the Holocaust in turn affected the way we read-or should read-the founding text of Christianity? Although the philosophical, ethical, and theological implications of the Holocaust have received much attention in recent years, its implications for our practices of biblical interpretation have gone largely unexplored. In A Shadow of Glory some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in biblical studies and Jewish studies-both Christian and Jewish, American and European-lay the groundwork for a new post-Holocaust hermeneutics.

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amazing
A great second book to a great series
As good as the first!

Shadow Tree (Glory)
Jodi Lynn
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Glory #4: Forget-Me-Not (Glory)

ASIN: 014240005X

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After being banished from the only world she has ever known, Glory decides she must do something with the time she has left. In honor of a promise that she made with her best friend, Katie, she is determined to do everything in her power to get to Boston. But the world outside Dogwood is more overwhelming and frightening than Glory could have imagined. She has no idea who to trust, or how to survive. Finally, with the help of a few kind and generous strangers, Glory takes her first tentative steps toward a new, yet terrifying, life.

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amazing.......2005-07-10

i love the glory series. i was not dissapointed in this sequel at all. it was just as thrilling and interesting as the first was. i am anxiously awaiting the third book in the series. i think jodi lynn has an excellent way of writing that is very interesting for me and other teens.

A great second book to a great series.......2004-03-11

The Glory books, along with King Fortis the Brave and The Chronicles of Narnia, rank among my favorite young adult books of all time. Shadow Tree is probably the best of all the Glory books. Highly recommended.

As good as the first!.......2003-08-05

What a great sequel! I was not disappointed! Ms Lynn continues Glory's wonderful adventure. I anxiously await the next installment.

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Deepening shadows and coming glories
A Sims
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Ghost and shadow towns of the glory road;: A photographic quest,

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Cal-Nevada mining ghosts

Ghost and shadow towns of the glory road;: A photographic quest,
Thomas W Moore
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Cal-Nevada mining ghosts.......2006-10-24

This is a book of photographs taken by author Thomas Moore of various ghost and near-ghost towns of the Nevada/California goldfields (roughly Reno to Death Valley). A so-so map shows where the towns are located. Moore gives a brief history of each town and then presents photos of what remnants he found there; it's probably safe to say that many of the ruins shown in these pre-1970 photos are gone by now. But there's something majestic in these forlorn crumbling structures and empty, wind-blown buildings and shacks that were once familiar sights to thousands of busy miners. One must consult other books, however, to get decent instructions on how to see these ghosts for oneself (Paher's "Ghost Town Atlases of Nevada" are good sources for this). It's a good book for those who are planning to visit any of these old sights: what might these old towns look like today compared to just 40 years ago?

In Glory's Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, The Citadel, and a Changing America

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Excellent
I am amazed
So, What Happened to Shannon?
Disjointed and Polemical
Two sides of the South

In Glory's Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, The Citadel, and a Changing America
Catherine S. Manegold
Manufacturer: Knopf
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ASIN: 0679446354
Release Date: 2000-01-25

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About half of Catherine S. Manegold's story in In Glory's Shadow deals with Shannon Faulkner's hard-fought legal battle to attend the Citadel, an all-male military academy in South Carolina that bills itself as the "South's West Point." (It is, most famously, the basis for the setting of Pat Conroy's bestselling novel The Lords of Discipline.) The other half, the "backstory" if you will, is a portrait of the Old South and old Southern masculinity, two venerated icons the Citadel has struggled to keep alive within its fortress-like walls. The Citadel was founded in the 1820s as a private training ground for an army intended to protect rich white landowners against insurrection by black slaves. The original recruits were mostly poor white men with no other chance to improve their class status. It became a school after the Civil War and settled into its role as a military college in the 20th century. The desire to ensure a successful future continues to draw students: Faulkner herself says she wanted to enroll for the discipline the academy provides, as well as the "brotherhood" she sees as a path to security. But what Manegold uncovers is less a family than a dysfunctional army, with a student-led tradition of physical and psychological abuse that seems to be supported by adult authority. (As one regimental commander's blackboard reads, "We are not hurting boys, we are disciplining men.") In Glory's Shadow is both a fascinating study of a changing South and a gripping account of an important legal battle. --Maria Dolan

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The byzantine world of The Citadel is fully revealed in this gripping account of Shannon Faulkner's attempt to become its first female cadet.

In Glory's Shadow explores the history of a southern institution determined to preserve traditional lines of power and social influence while all around it America was changing.

In 1993, Shannon -- then a high school senior -- filed suit against The Citadel, the public all-male military college in Charleston, South Carolina. She claimed that by refusing to admit her as a cadet the school was defying the Constitution. For three years an ugly battle raged: Courtroom clashes over justice, educational styles and the training of young men and women alternated with small-town pettiness, death threats and the vilest expressions of sexism and hate. Catherine S. Manegold covered the landmark battle for the New York Times; now she gives us the story behind the story.

It starts in the antebellum South in 1822, when members of the white minority, terrified by the narrowly averted Denmark Vesey slave revolt, called for a citadel and hastily organized a private militia. Twenty years later that small home guard was remade into a school where white youths might gain access to a world of elegance, wealth and power. We see the school grow in size and reputation through two world wars until the last few decades, when, as America wrestled with chaotic calls to power from blacks, women, immigrants and homosexuals, The Citadel took the path the country as a whole was rejecting and proudly marched in place. The cadets clung to antique hierarchies born of slavery and war, employing careful courtesies in public while practicing archaic and often brutal rituals within their barracks.

This is the world Shannon challenged. When she arrived at The Citadel's gates and was turned away because of her sex, the stage was set for conflict. We watch her struggle to a triumph that was short-lived: She won her case but left The Citadel after a single week -- three years at the center of the storm, and fear for her family's safety, finally wore her down. Manegold illuminates the course -- historical, judicial and psychological -- of Shannon's fight and uncovers a striking American drama, a clash between those who would preserve the rigid structures of the past and those trying to chart a new course in a nation remaking itself.

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Excellent.......2001-10-31

The first time I saw the behaviour of Nazi soldiers in Schindlers List I said to myself "they remind me of the cadets in the Lords of Discipline". The Lords of Discipline is fictional account of the Citadel. A fact was confirmed after seeing pictures of Citadel cadets dressed up as Nazi's in their yearbook.

I found this to be a wonderful and engrossing book and I am frankly not surprised that most of the negative reviews come from Citadel attendies. In his books The Boo and The Lords of Discipline Pat Conroy (who for years was villified by his alma matter) basically stated that most of those who attended the Citadel thought that it was paradise on earth and "God created it on the eigth day after he rested". Obviously some have problems with criticism of their school and can't handle it. The Citadel has always fascinated me and I was intrigued by this book which I actually read in record time. The book gives a fascinating account of the school, and the history of Charleston.

Yes this book is at times is harsh and does not reflect the school in a good light. But it isn't as if Ms. Minegold is the first to do so. Numerous news organizations among them 60 Minutes have done pieces on the school and their handling of the comming of women. To this date I really don't think that I have read one positive piece on the Citadel which does not make the school into a factory for bullies and sadists. Hopefully one day one graduate (hopefully female) will give a true and balanced acount of the school.

From what I have seen lately it seems as if the school has done some growing up and is truly trying to change their reputation.

I am amazed.......2001-10-30

I am amazed at the content of this book. What Miss Faulkner did is important. It was the proper time for women to be admited to The Citadel. However Miss Faulkner was the wrong women. She repesented her entire gender horribly when she arrived at the school. She was not at all prepared for the hardships of knob year. She was a embaressment to all women. Miss Faulkner stayed at the actual Citadel for 4 hours before she quit. The rest of her hell week was spent in the infirmary where her tender nerves were attended to. She did this to prove a point and all she did was embaress herself and her gender. The author takes a view of someone who has heard only the bad facets of the school, but that is to be expected considering who provided her information.
StevensJ@citadel.edu

So, What Happened to Shannon?.......2001-10-13

Title sounded like a good book for our AAUW book group - a woman facing an all-male educational establishment in the conservative South. A great deal of Southern/Charleston history thrown in - interesting, but besides establishing what most students of history already knew, had little to do with Ms. Faulkner's story. Never got to know her as a person, and court dialogue not included at all in this book. Where were the taunts, controversy, the meat of the trial? Was Ms. Faulkner suffering from heat exhaustion (and if so, why was she so physically out of shape, given she'd had 3+ yrs. to prepare for Hell Week), or was it an emotional breakdown/letdown after all those years of fighting?
Manegold writes like a journalist, giving facts, but little insight to the feature character's final days at the Citadel. Most disappointing! I will not recommend this to my book group.

Disjointed and Polemical.......2001-09-06

This book sets out to be many things. It succeeds at none of them. As a result, it's is not only disjointed and confusing, but soaked through with bias as well.

Ms Faulkner herself is the central figure in this drama, but at the end of the book, many questions about her remain unanswered. Did she apply to The Citadel purely on a whim, as it seems at first? Did she want the luster that comes with a Citadel ring (the ring is practically totemic), the 'network' and 'connections,' without understanding that the network depends on the shared experience of surviving the Citadel? Were her energies so focused on the legal fight that she was unprepared for what she found when she got in? When she left The Citadel, she complained that she had no friends in the school or the Corps. Was she really so naïve as to expect the school she and her lawyers had spent years attacking to offer her a warm embrace once she battered the doors down? None of these questions are adequately answered. It's not even clear whether the days Ms Faulkner spent in the infirmary were due to heat stroke, a mental or emotional breakdown, physical collapse, or something else entirely.

Unlike Dr Laura Fairchild Brodie, who wrote about the 'assimilation' of women at VMI, Ms Manegold is not 'the band director's wife.' Not, that is, someone who knows the story from the inside. She seems not to have even residual sympathy for The Citadel as an institution, for the young men (and women) who attend it, or for the administrators wrestling with how to adapt to a society that has rejected nearly everything they value. Considering the patronizing, even sneering, tone she sometimes takes toward the military and people who serve in it, it's surprising Ms Manegold could have endured a career as a defense reporter.

That's too bad, because there is clearly an interesting and important story here. Maybe someday, someone will find a more effective, less polemical, way to tell it.

Two sides of the South.......2000-07-21

I found the history of the Citadel very interesting, but the story of Shannon Faulkner ultimately disappointing. To surrender to threats after all she had been through to become a cadet didn't seem in character with the stubborn, proud, and gutsy Shannon we saw in most of the book. Of course, I couldn't understand why she would want to go there in the first place. The atmosphere at the Citadel doesn't seem one to produce the new kind of leaders we need for present day situations, and I wondered how the "knobs" ever got any academic work accomplished.

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You are there.
Well worth the read
Just like it was
AN EXCELLENT KOREAN WAR NOVEL

In the Shadow of Glory
R. B. Campbell
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
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ASIN: 1588511944

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You are there........2002-03-06

The journey of Larry Gaiser from wide-eyed grunt to hard-nosed veteran is very convincing, and the combat scenes have an eloquence and ring of truth that leave a long-lasting impression.. You can hear it, smell it and feel it. Campbell takes you there and plants you in the Korean mud for the duration, and you leave, as he did, knowing what war really means-that the experience alone can take a young life just as surely a bullet.

Well worth the read.......2001-12-18

"In the Shadow of Glory" serves a profound purpose for those of us who have not, nor will ever serve in combat. Through the eyes of a young, patriotic marine, one is taken to the extremes of both the heroism and horror that were the intrinsic bi-products of the Korean war. The reader hardens with him in an effort to survive. Written in an appropriate, straightforward style, this book is an enlightening yet emotionally challenging read. I highly recommend it.

Just like it was.......2001-12-18

So realistic it brought back memories that I had forgotten.

AN EXCELLENT KOREAN WAR NOVEL.......2001-10-14

Reading IN THE SHADOW OF GLORY was like a nostalgic trip to a period of time 50 years ago when I was a young and naive Marine not really prepared for the stark realities of combat... I would highly recommend this fast-paced novel to all Korea veterans, military history buffs and anyone who enjoys a good read.
Donald E. Chab, USMC Korea, 1951-1952

In the Shadow of Glory: The Thirteenth Minnesota in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, 1898-1899

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Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place

In the Shadow of Glory: The Thirteenth Minnesota in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, 1898-1899
Kyle Roy Ward
Manufacturer: North Star Press of St. Cloud
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The Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection: 1898-1902 (Men-at-Arms)

ASIN: 087839138X

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In the wake of the Civil War, conflict was looked upon as a right of passage, so when the United States became embroiled in the Spanish-American and Philipene-American Wars, young men marched away to fulfill their destiny, as they were told. But, by the time they came back, they were put down and forgotten. This is the story of the 13th Minnesota Regiment and their trials in the Pacific.

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Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place.......2001-07-30

The expectations of the previous Civil War soldier generation combined with the youthful volunteers full of boundless energy confronted by the realities of politics on a global stage. The inevitable personal confusion and resulting dismay were result of the Philippine's portion of the Spanish American War.

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This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present a biography of Yamato Ichihashi, a Stanford University professor who was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States. The second purpose is to present, through Ichihashi’s wartime writings, the only comprehensive first-person account of internment life by one of the 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who, in 1942, were sent by the U.S. government to “relocation centers,” the euphemism for prison camps.

Arriving in the United States from Japan in 1894, when he was sixteen, Ichihashi attended public school in San Francisco, graduated from Stanford University, and received a doctorate from Harvard University. He began teaching at Stanford in 1913, specializing in Japanese history and government, international relations, and the Japanese American experience. He remained at Stanford until he and his wife, Kei, were forced to leave their campus home for a series of internment camps, where they remained until the closing days of the war.

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"ELITE" STANFORD PROFESSOR INTERNED WITH THE REST.......1999-06-25

Detailed and exhaustive book by/about Ichihashi who came to the US from Japan in 1984 at the age of 16 to study. He graduated from Stanford, got a Ph.D. from Harvard, became a professor at Stanford. He and his wife and son "relocated" to Santa Anita and then Tule Lake and then Granada (Amache) during WWII. He became embittered and an elitist during the war years, which is told in a very dramatic albiet exhaustive fashion in the book via his letters. Following relocation he and his wife returned to a very different Stanford University and environs, which he found very difficult to cope with. Very enjoyable book, personal as well as historical.

Vital contribution to Asian American and internment history.......1999-05-21

Though long and at times cumbersome to read, this is a valuable addition to the literature in Asian American and World War II internment history. Yamato Ichihashi is an all but forgotten figure who has left a written record of his internment experience as he lived it, making this book a rare and important piece that all students of the internment should read. At the same time, this book belongs to the body of literature in Asian American social history. Who knew that in the early 1900s, Stanford University had a Japanese American professor among its faculty? What kind of life did he lead considering his anomalous position as an academic compared to other Japanese in America and the intense anti-Asian atmosphere of those times in the West? How does knowledge of this man's life enrich our understanding of Asian American history and American history at large? All of those questions are satisfyingly answered. Ichihashi's writings take center stage in the book, but Chang provides lucidly written annotations and a bibliographic essay that make the volume quite readable and enjoyable. Chang allows Ichihashi's words to speak for themselves which allows the reader to get a very vivid picture of life in the internment camps. In addition, reading his thoughts about his circumstances as an academic, a professor at Stanford, and an internee offer rare and revealing insights.

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