A few days ago I did one of my favorite things about being a writer — research. In the middle of the week and the middle of the day, I hopped on my scooter, riding through downtown Seattle to the Museum of Flight. My goal: tour the interior of a B-17. This aircraft had a […]
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Book Review: Duty, Honor, Country. West Point to Shiloh. By Bob Mayer
Posted: 7th June 2011 by Richard Hacker in UncategorizedTags: book review, civil war, Grant, historical novel, history, novel, Sherman
The Story Several West Point graduates, including Grant and Sherman, navigate a life of duty and honor from the US expansion into California to the Mexican War and finally on the battlefields of the Civil War, where colleagues and sometimes, friends and family, find themselves on opposing sides. What I like about this book I […]