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-Michael Korda
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
New York, N.Y. 2014.​
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I read Michael Korda's Hero (a biography of T. E. Lawrence [of Arabia]) last year. It was riveting and I was impressed by the author's meticulous research and prose. Much to my astonishment, I discovered that David Lean's spectacular film was that rarest of rarities: a Hollywood film that was, in the main, accurate.


For a multitude of reasons, I've had a lifelong interest and affinity for Robert E. Lee. For many generations, in both the North and the South and throughout the United States, he was widely admired and considered a paragon of character and integrity— in addition to his stature as a military genius.


Korda succeeds in tying together in a lucid and fluid fashion the string of Lee's successes from his 1862 command debut at Seven Days to Second Manassas. This is the first time I've encountered a book that makes the various campaigns logically sequential in respect of strategy, logistics, politics, topography, tactics and geography. Korda is clearly familiar with the critically important role that logistics play in formulating decisions— and it is a prominent facet of the constraints that Lee had to contend with. I haven't seen other authors describe, present or consider the difficulties of feeding many thousands of horses and men when chronically under-supplied. It is a subtlety that may have had a larger influence than is widely understood on the Army of Northern Virginia's two campaigns north of the Potomac. It is no understatement to say that the Army of Northern Virginia was "living off the land" both prior to and during those forays.



I was very surprised by occasional displays of sloppy prose and weak editing. I have chosen to label the appearance of glaringly obvious errors such as "Cranston Gap" (instead of "Crampton's Gap"— the location of an important and bloody preliminary battle in the Sharpsburg/Antietam campaign) as particularly egregious.


It is no accident that military academies around the world continue to teach their students about Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Seven Days, Second Manassas and Sharpsburg.



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I was reading " Cherry Blossom Girls" by Harmon Cooper. But the narrative was way to long before there was really anything sexual happening and the first sex scene was extremely bland. So I dropped it.
 
Just starting Daisy Jones and the Six. An interesting contrast to the last book I read, a biography of Alma Mahler.
 
"High Road to China" by John Cleary.

Couldn't find it on Kindle or the library, so I actually had to buy a REAL book, made from paper.

I'm sorry tree, I'll treat your remains with respect.
 
Skin Game by Jim butcher

Last book in the harry Dresden series...very bittersweet.
 
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

An absolute gem of a book. I'm reading it slowly (which is not like me) because every page has superb sentences, full of a wonderful, gentle wit.
 
Will Robie and Jack Ryan

Recently finished End Game by David Baldacci and have just begun reading Power and Empire by Marc Cameron continuing the Jack Ryan series begun by Tom Clancy.
 
Reported.

Ask David Downie where he was at 1030 a.m. on Saturday, 23 March 2019, during the Virginia Festival of the Book. I'm thinking at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia. It's not my fault if others lead small lives and are reduced to engaging in personal attacks on porn story discussion boards.

If you'd like to check out whether David Downie would have been there that day, here, I'll help you. Be my guest: https://www.vabook.org/speakers/?letter=D
If you wonder if I was there on that day, go fish.
 
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KeithD said:
Reported.

Ask David Downie where he was at 1030 a.m. on Saturday, 23 March 2019, during the Virginia Festival of the Book. I'm thinking at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia. It's not my fault if others lead small lives and are reduced to engaging in personal attacks on porn story discussion boards.

If you'd like to check out whether David Downie would have been there that day, here, I'll help you. Be my guest: https://www.vabook.org/speakers/?letter=D
If you wonder if I was there on that day, go fish.
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Reported :D.. With all the shit you dish out you then show how thin skinned you really are ?

No doubt he was there....you on the other hand ? You've a signed copy of his book with a nice picture of you both ?
 
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Sunstone #6: Mercy. As good as the previous five, which is high praise.

Alexander Spreng and Pitt Hamman, Der Treue Troll. Tragic story of a troll who waits for his sweetheart until the sun comes up and turns him to stone :-/
 
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