Alan Armstrong ’61 released the novel “Wolf By The Ears.” Acclaimed by participants, historians and academicians, “Wolf” tells in novel form the true-to-life, inside story of how the Cambodian Republic fell into the hands of the monster Pol Pot and his depraved killers exactly 50 years ago.

“West Point taught me many things but did I sleep through the class on how an American officer maintains his integrity as he participates in his country’s abandonment of an ally in wartime?” Armstrong asks. “Was Cambodia a precursor for Ukraine?”