Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Diana Jean Schemo Издательство: Страниц: 320 ISBN: 9780470046371
Описание
"Skies to Conquer is a terrific, important, beautifully written book. Diana Jean Schemo takes readers deep inside one of the military?s most important, if least understood, institutions: the U.S. Air Force Academy. It is a book that proves that America?s warriors of the air are made, not born. Schemo was granted extraordinary, fly–on–the–wall access to a new class of training cadets who arrive in Colorado Springs as uncertain, undisciplined teenagers and are molded, sometimes brutally, into the future leaders of the United States Air Force. A collection of rich, very human portraits of these young men and women, the book also offers a troubling, if scrupulously fair, portrait of the institution. Written in the wake of the school?s 2003 sexual–assault scandal, Skies to Conquer contains startling evidence to suggest that sexual harassment and religious intolerance may still plague the academy." —Philip Shenon, author of the New York Times bestseller The Commission "Diana Jean...
