Shelby Foote's 'The Civil War', a narrative. On volume two of a three volume set. Fantastic book IMO with Foote doing his usual great job of showing the reality of day- to- day life during major events in history that usually get pushed aside in favor of the big picture. He takes great care to point out the all of the politicians of the day were just as overloaded with virtually the same daily garbage that all politicians have faced.
Brian
I love to read, I read a lot, maybe a book or two a week, sometimes two at a time. Usually military fiction or history ala Clancy, WEB Griffin, Flynn, Thor, with a classic or a Cussler thrown in for good measure. I've got Clancy's last 4 books I'm holding off reading till next year. I may try to get through Huckleberry Finn again, for maybe the 10th time, I hate books written in colloquial dialogue. Anyway, I'm in the middle of Jeff Shaara's "The Steel Wave", a novel of the D-Day invasion at Normandy. Fantastic, as all of his and his fathers books are. What are you reading now?