Pentagon

Enormously rich in detail, stunning in its vivid descriptions and bold character portraits, expert in the scope and breadth of its knowledge, rich in its depth of expertise, Pentagon is nonfiction that is written with a novelist's brilliance and a scholar's keenly balanced sense of historical perspective.

Pentagon is a crowning achievement for author David Alexander, who has succeeded in elevating journalism to the lofty heights of narrative history as few before him have been able to do.

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