A Memoir with Great Stories

Listen Up! is not a traditional memoir. It is a book of stories: some powerful and some humorous. These stories are about West Point, playing lacrosse, living in Europe just after WWII, flying, combat, the Pentagon, being on camera, teaching, leading, fundraising and more. For example, born into a military family, Perry Smith witnessed, at age six, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. He was in the back of an Army truck on the way to Sunday School on that fateful morning. Open this book and enjoy some stories from a long, eventful life.

Perry McCoy Smith, Jr., is a retired major general, who served for thirty years in the U.S. Air Force. During his military career he commanded an F-15 fighter wing, was the top Air Force planner and served as commandant of the National War College. During the Vietnam War, he flew 180 combat missions over North Vietnam and Laos. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, Smith later earned a Ph.D. in international relations from Columbia University. He has published books on leadership, strategic planning, CNN, the Pentagon and on Medal of Honor recipient, Jimmie Dyess. Rules and Tools for Leaders, with 300,000 in print, is his most successful book.