An Army of Convicts: They Combed America's Prisons to Find Convicts Suitable for Military Service, Then Stuck Them on the Front Lines
by Cliff Roehr
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Author: Cliff RoehrEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-01-09
ISBN: 1591098467
Number of pages: 260
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
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Book Review: Everyone can be redeemed. Never give up on people.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a compelling and well paced novel unlike anything I've read prior or since. It's difficult to categorize. It's part prison story, part military story, and it's a rags to riches tome as well, where a kid from the other side of the tracks is involved in a tragic turn of events. Like all of us, I suppose, the hero of the book is a good person who involves himself in some ugliness, and pays the price. But the theme of redemption is strong here, and what could have been very dark and cynical, becomes an uplifting and inspirational story of a world that I for one, certainly wish were true. Nice work. This should be in any prison or barracks library.
Summary of An Army of Convicts: They Combed America's Prisons to Find Convicts Suitable for Military Service, Then Stuck Them on the Front Lines
When the lawmakers in the State Capital passed an ill-advised law that could potentially bankrupt the state an innovative governor presents a plan to shift some of the burden to the Federal Government. The plan was to form a National Guard unit in a maximum security prison and work a scheme to get the men of that unit on active duty in the army. The scheme worked better than he could ever have imagined. This is the story of those convicts and the active duty army unit they formed. More than that, it is the story of a very special young man. The one of a kind that comes along once or twice in every century and how he was able to make the most of the opportunity offered him as a member of the Expendable Force. Live with them their adventures in ridding a nation of drug lords, fighting a war in the far east and their participation in a war in the middle east. See how they fared in war games in the American desert against units of the regular army.Contemporary Books
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