The Building: A Biography of the Pentagon

by David Alexander

The Pentagon has been called many things by many people, but to those who work there, directing the defense of the United States, it is simply "the Building." Monumental in its five-pointed symmetry, the massive five-sided, five-story structure encompasses over six million square feet of floor space and covers twenty-nine acres of formerly swampy ground. There has always been much more to the Pentagon than concrete, limestone and steel. In The Pentagon,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076032087X
• ISBN13: 9780760320877
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Zenith Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"