Doug Beason

The Cadet (Wild Blue U, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Cadet, Book 1 of the Wild Blue U saga, chronicles the founding years of arduous training of America's future leaders as they prepare to serve in such places from the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of the Middle East. The Cadet is an accurate, historical saga of the Academy based on factual events - but populated with empathetic, larger-than-life characters that will appeal to prospective candidates, military members, and the reading public alike.

Praise for The Cadet

"Doug Beason has distilled the first years of the Air Force Academy into a compelling and fascinating novel. Those present at the Academy in the 1950s will resonate with his photographically accurate scenes and events. The characters, their tricks and trials, are a rich mix of the colorful personalities who made the opening years of the Academy such an enthralling and challenging act to follow. Readers who do not know those times first hand have here the closest and most intimate account that exists in print, with all the turbulence and exuberance captured through the lens of fiction. The drama and growth in the lives of Beason's characters is masterfully woven and propels you through the pages. There has to be more to this story." LtGen Brad Hosmer, USAF (ret) - #1 Graduate of USAFA Class of '59, Rhoades Scholar and USAFA Superintendent

"Timeless and absorbing. Beason's attention-to-detail, woven with high-stakes drama, provides an astonishing and authentic portrayal of the military academy experience. If you really want to know the rigors, the demands, and the joys of what it's like to be a cadet, this book's for you!" Jerry Pournelle - NYT Best-selling author, Nebula and Hugo winner.

"I loved it. It's brilliant. Once started, I was never really able to put it down." Jack McDevitt - NYT Best-selling author, Nebula and Hugo winner.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: WordFire Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781614752905
• Artikelnr.: 46929443

Autorenporträt

Dr. Doug Beason is the author of twelve novels as well as two non-fiction books. A Nebula Award finalist, Doug has published over 100 short stories and other work in publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, Analog, Amazing Stories, Physics of Fluids, and Physical Review Letters. A Fellow of the American Physical Society and Ph.D. physicist, Doug retired as the Associate Laboratory Director at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was responsible for the people and programs that reduce the global threat of weapons of mass destruction. A retired USAF Colonel, Doug's last active duty assignment was the Commander of the Phillips Research Site and Deputy Director for Directed Energy at the Air Force Research Laboratory. He has worked on the White House staff for the President's Science Advisor, and was recently the Chief Scientist of Air Force Space Command. A 1977 graduate of the USAF Academy, he served on the USAFA faculty as an Associate Professor of Physics and Director of Faculty Research.