I brought my copy of Ralph Peters' Judgment at Appomattox to a legal conference. I read a little bit each night before I go to sleep. It is hard to set the book down but I have to get up early every day. Peters really brings history to life. He uses a lot of alliteration, must have studied Old English, Gerard Manley Hopkins or both.
Historians need not despair. We too can bring events to life, but that involves using the words of others as well as our own, as Gordon Rhea has done in On to Petersburg.
Historians need not despair. We too can bring events to life, but that involves using the words of others as well as our own, as Gordon Rhea has done in On to Petersburg.
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