The Way of Duty, Honor, Country: The Memoir of General Charles Pelot Summerall

by Charles Pelot Summerall

Born in rural Florida during the Reconstruction, Charles Pelot Summerall (1867-1955) enrolled in West Point in 1888. After graduating, Summerall's Army career helped to pull his family out of extreme poverty and set him on a path to eventually become a decorated war hero, four-star General, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, and President of the Citadel. Straddling the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Summerall's service began when the U.S. government...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813126185
• ISBN13: 9780813126180
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"