A Return to Glory: The Untold Story of Honor, Dishonor & Triumph at the United States Military Academy, 1950-53

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Bill McWilliams

Hardcover  August, 2000


A Return to Glory is the first book to bring
readers behind closed doors at West Point
during the unprecedented, widely controversial,
tragic cheating episode of 1951.
Told with great precision and keen insight, A
Return to Glory fuses the intertwined struggles
for officers and cadets to maintain honorable
conduct on the athletic field with the
challenges to officers and enlisted men on the
battlefields of Korea, the Cold Wars first
frustrating and deadly "limited war." The
parallels and corollaries are astounding and
often profound.

The book also tells one of the great, never-
before-told collegiate football stories of the
twentieth century, namely the inspiring true
story of how the vaunted Army football team
nationally dominant during much of the decade
preceding the incidentrecovered from losing
almost 40 players in the devastating cheating
scandal of 1951.

Timeless and compelling, A Return to Glory is
as surprising and meaningful for today's
readers as it will be for those who lived the
events of a half century ago. Both a period
history and lively true story, the book tells
of authentic and unsung heroes and young men
attempting to live up to the extraordinarily
high standards demanded by the Academy and its
Honor Code.

While the work accurately portrays the joys,
rewards, and tragedies of life in the military,
it also tells thought-provoking, often
humorous, uplifting stories about people and
institutions, "warts and all," woven into a
larger story and theme, with deliberately broad
appeal intended to reach the general public.

Most importantly, in a new age of desperate
battles that challenge the integrity of
military leaders on and off todays
battlefields, A Return to Glory tells the
inspirational story of some of their Army
forebears who selflessly chose the harder right
over the easier wrong...and prevailed.

Bill McWilliams
2229 Fiero Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89134
Ph: (702) 363-6968; Fax: (702) 256-6051

ISBN-10: 1890306223 ISBN-13: 978-1890306229



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