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Bakken, Tim Child, Lee Coulson, Art Edstrom, Erik Gibson, Claire Kelley, K. C. Kimmel, Heidi. Russ, Ted.Kelley, K. C.
Summary: Briefly describes the history and rivalry of the Army Black Knights football team of the United States Military Academy, West Point and the Navy Midshipmen football team of the United States Naval Academy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 KELKimmel, Heidi.
Summary: Chronicles the history of the military academy at West Point, New York, including its role in the American Revolution, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and World Wars I and II, and discusses the daily life of a cadet and the enrollment of minorities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 KIMBakken, Tim
Summary: Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty yers at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. Bakken makes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 BAKChild, Lee
Summary: "Reacher rides the bus north from Milwaukee. At a comfort stop in Wisconsin dairy country he takes a stroll. Among the cheap junk in a pawn shop window he notices a West Point class ring for sale. It's tiny. A woman cadet's ring. Why would she pawn it? Reacher knows what Serena Sanderson must have gone through to get it. He fights through a biker gang and a South Dakota gangster, following the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2017
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Summary: "A whistle-blowing manifesto about America's unchallenged war machine, from a new kind of military hero. First: Imagine your own death. Second: Imagine America's wars from "the other side." Third: Imagine what might have been if the war were never fought.Un-American poses these startling circumstances in a searing examination of America and Americans at war. Erik Edstrom grew up in suburban...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDSTROM, ERIK EDSGibson, Claire
Summary: In this powerful debut novel set at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, three women--a nationally-ranked point guard, the granddaughter of an Army general, and a rebellious Homecoming Queen--are brought together in an enthralling story of friendship, heartbreak, and resilience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GIBGibson, Claire
Summary: Duty. Honor. Country. That's West Point's motto, and every cadet who passes through its stone gates vows to live it. But on the eve of 9/11, as Dani, Hannah and Avery face four grueling years ahead, they realize they'll only survive if they do it together. Everyone knows Dani is going places. With athletic talent and a brilliant mind, she navigates West Point's predominantly male environment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBCoulson, Art
Summary: In the autumn of 1912, the football team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.S. Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and better-equipped West Points Cadets. Sportswriters billed the game as a sort of rematch, pitting against each other the descendants of U.S. soldiers and American Indians who fought on the battlefield only 20 years earlier. But for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THOContents: Ashokan farewell (Jay Ungar and Molly Mason with Fiddle Fever) -- No more auction block for me (Sweet Honey in the Rock) -- Lincoln & liberty (Ronnie Gilbert) -- Dixie's land (United States Military Academy Band) -- The southern soldier boy (Kathy Mattea) -- Aura Lee (John Hartford) -- Rebel soldier (Waylon Jennings) -- Follow the drinking gourd (Richie Havens) -- Battle hymn of the Republic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY SONSummary: This is the definitive concise military history of the Revolutionary War and the fourth volume in the West Point History of Warfare series is packed with essential images, exclusive tactical maps, and expert analysis commissioned by The United States Military Academy at West Point to teach the art of war to West Point cadet
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 WESSummary: Everyday Engineering: Understanding the Marvels of Daily Life is an indispensable guide to the way things work in the world around you. Conducting this eye-opening tour is Professor Stephen Ressler of the United States Military Academy at West Point, an award-winning civil engineer and a nationally honored leader in engineering education.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Great Courses 2015
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Summary: Unbending regulations, excruciating physical demands, and relentless academic requirements: this is everyday life at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Since 1802, this revered institution has accepted only the most promising of men-and, beginning with legislation signed into law in 1975, the most promising of women, as well. This episode from the classic Surviving West Point...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Russ, Ted.
Summary: "To honor bonds forged twenty-five-years ago at West Point, Lieutenant Colonel Sam Avery leads an illegal mission deep into ISIS-held territory. Flying across Iraq in a stolen helicopter, Army Lieutenant Colonel Sam Avery knows that tonight will be his last mission. He and his crew will either be shot down by ISIS, or court martialed when they return. Sam doesn't care. He can't care. There is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSSummary: Risking their lives on deadly undercover missions around the globe, the Unit is a highly skilled, ultra-secret contingent of special forces soldiers operating outside the traditional chain of military command. The hunters become the hunted as the team and their families are targeted by a deadly and far-reaching conspiracy forcing them to relocate and assume new identities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009