Name: Letters from the Front Lines
Brand: Granville Island Publishing (CA)
SKU: 9781894694483
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Letters from the Front Lines

Iraq & Afghanistan

By (author): Rear Admiral Stuart Franklin Platt (USN Ret'd), By (author): Duffrey Sigurdson

Published by Granville Island Publishing (CA)

In Stock

£19.99

Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781894694483
Publication Date: 21-Sep-2006

Subjects:
True war & combat stories
Iraq
Afghanistan

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This is a remarkable account of the lives and experiences of Americans at War in Iraq and Afghanistan. War letters have long served scholars as a rich source of material when researching the history of our nation, and this collection of letters, e-mails and blogs preserves for future generations the day-to-day lives and observations of a small group of remarkable men and women in uniform. Hand-written letters, which were, until the current conflict, the only source of communication home from the frontlines, are being replaced by e-mail -- and in some cases, by a web log or 'blog' -- and this book will also serve as a reminder of how important it is that we preserve these more ephemeral records.

Admiral Platt capped a distinguished career in the US Navy with his appointment during the Reagan administration to serve as the country's first Competition Advocate General (the Navy's top business man in uniform). Admiral Platt was recently named to the Cold War Leadership Hall of Fame by the Submarine Force Museum Association and he is a highly decorated Vietnam veteran. He is the Chairman of Harbor Wing Technologies Inc, producers of un-manned open ocean surveillance and research vessels. Admiral Platt also serves on the corporate board of DRS Technologies Inc, and he is the chairman of the Historic Ships Foundation in San Francisco, as well as a Presidential Appointee to the Board of Governors of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Admiral Platt holds a MS (Operations Analysis) from the Simon Graduate School of Business, as well as a BS degree from the University of Rochester, and an MBA from the University of Michigan. He is the published author of two books and numerous Op-Ed and scholarly works. He is a former Wall Street Journal Scholar and is a graduate of the Executive Program at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. In the past 5 years Duffrey Sigurdson has worked closely with Admiral Platt on several scholarly works and two books. His other interests include offshore sailing, aviation and history. Duffrey is a former member of the PPCLI "Red Devils", an elite Infantry Regiment in the Canadian military.