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“The Unforgiving Minute is one of the most compelling memoirs yet to emerge from America's 9/11 era. Craig Mullaney has given us an unusually honest, funny, accessible, and vivid account of a soldier's coming of age. This is more than a soldier's story; it is a work of literature." —Steve…

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As the former Commandant and Superintendent of West Point, I came to love and admire the young cadets who came to West Point to serve their country, knowing full well they would join an Army at war, putting their lives at risk, and yet they still came. 

This book is about a West Point graduate who was not only a West Point graduate, but also a Rhodes Scholar, and after all of his education, found himself in the harsh and most deadly places in Afghanistan, leading a platoon of 40 young men who were in combat fighting for their lives…

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