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West Point is a geographical location that was of critical importance during the Revolutionary War, the site of our nation's first military academy, and the commissioning source of thousands of Army, Army Air Corps, Air Force, and even some Navy and Marine Corps officers who have led our nation's young men, and now women, in battle since the Academy's founding on March 16, 1802 by President Thomas Jefferson. This volume contains a very selective military history of the United States that focuses on the Revolutionary War and the contributions of West Point graduates to subsequent wars, but with an emphasis on some of the lesser known persons and events of the past 250 years or so. It also touches upon many of the customs and traditions of the West Point experience. Many chapters include the stories of unsung or forgotten heroes and heroines. Men like John Stark, Daniel Morgan, Eleazer Derby Wood, Benjamin L.E. Bonneville, Oliver Otis Howard, Henry Ossian Flipper, Calvin Pearl Titus, Charles Young, Norman D. Cota, and Donald W. Holleder plus women like the Warner sisters, Laura Walker, and Emily Perez. One of the final chapters, however, deals with-in the kindest sense of the term-a few rogues of West Point like Edgar Allan Poe, James McNeil Whistler, Hugh S. Johnson, and The Mole.
- Sales Rank: #2756120 in Books
- Published on: 2015-02-06
- Released on: 2015-02-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .81" w x 6.00" l, 1.04 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 322 pages
About the Author
Julian Michael Olejniczak is a West Point graduate who retired as a lieutenant colonel of Infantry after a 23-year career that included duty with U.S. Army Special Forces and the Vietnamese Ranger Training Center during two tours in Vietnam; command of an Infantry company in South Korea and an Arctic light infantry battalion in the interior of Alaska; and instructor duty at West Point and the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth. Upon retirement, he earned a joint MBA and law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, practiced corporate law in Nashville, and then served as editor in chief of the West Point alumni magazines and associated publications for 21 years. This volume is based, in part, upon his writings under the pseudonym of J. Phoenix, Esquire, from January 2003 to April 2011 while at West Point.
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By Thomas W. Leo
TITLE WITH Bibliographic INFORMATION:
To Be a Soldier: A Selective American Military History.
By Julian M. Olejniczak
Xlibris. 2015. ISBN 978-1-4990-7821-3
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Table of Contents
320 pages.
Appendix. Pp. 307
REVIEWER: Thomas W. Leo
WORD COUNT RANGE: 200 – 400
FONT/FONT SIZE: 14 point, Ariel
SPACING: Single with space between paragraphs
In the author’s short pedigree, he is not given credit for being a historian. Nothing could be farther from the truth. He is a 1961 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a former Vice President in charge of the Publications Dept. of the Association of Graduates where he did extensive research on the Academy and its history and people.
This is a well-written book, an excellent, highly recommended read that would be better served were it known by the second half of the title “A Selective American Military History” because that is what it is.
It is a story of the contribution of several less well-known graduates to our various wars over the years, interspersed with vignettes of the lives they led, e.g. Benjamin Bonneville, ‘1815, after whom the famous salt flats – used for automobile speed trials – in Utah were named.
Then there is George Horatio Derby, a.k.a. John Phoenix,’1846 – whom the author has used as a ‘pen name’, “J. Phoenix, ESQ”.
Henry O. Flipper, West Point’s first Negro graduate, is discussed, as is Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield – Schofield’s Definition of Discipline – and the Warner Sisters of Constitution Island.
Then there is Ducrot Pepys; and the foxhole on your front lawn.
True to the traits of a historian, the author covers, in chronological order, the wars that we, the United States, have been involved in from our Revolution on through Afghanistan, with frequent excursions along the way to touch on Armistice Day, the Unknown Soldier, the Great Depression, the Air Cadets, the Berlin Air Lift and the founding of the Air Force Academy and West Point itself, just to name a few.
In the process he visits the Libraries of West Point, its Monuments and Memorials and since West Point is so close to New York City, the City itself – featuring Mama Leone’s Restaurant, a famous NY eatery well known to Cadets of the day, including the author and reviewer, a location now, sadly, long out of existence.
The final section of the work treats The Rogues of West Point; surely one must realize that an institution with so much intrinsic discipline needs some relief, an outlet for its denizens.
The author begins with the Eggnog Riot of 1826, continues with a treatise on Edgar Allen Poe, then onto James McNeill Whistler, MacArthur and the Reveille Cannon, and “The Mole”.
The reviewer will leave it to the readers to peruse the various sections of an EXCELLENT – short – very well done unique history of America’s Military and its Military Academy.
The reviewer, Thomas W. Leo, CPP, is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point AND the leader of the Moles during the academic year 1958-59.
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there is no better guide than Julian Olejniczak to take readers inside the ...
By Gil Dorland
As an illustrious graduate and former editor-in-chief of West Point’s alumni magazine, there is no better guide than Julian Olejniczak to take readers inside the gray stone walls of the U.S. Military Academy and the history and core traditions that make it one of America’s most revered treasures. Through vignettes and anecdotes rarely seen, TO BE A SOLDIER humanizes the Academy and its graduates. A must read for history buffs, high school students considering studying at the Academy, and anyone interested in learning more about America’s premier leadership institution.
—Gil Dorland
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Excellent book. It 's actually a compilation of essays ...
By Thaddeus W. Smith
Excellent book. It's actually a compilation of essays or articles written over a number years/decades for the West Point Alumni Association news letters and magazines. They are brief, concise and well written. Outstanding book to read for many occasions such as a long flight, summer vacation or some light reading prior to retiring for the evening.
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