05 03 2024 new spitfire

[@TcpIpNut]

I enjoyed your video. After reading the extensive Kindle preview of Nine Lives, I purchased the book and have been enjoying it as well. Thanks for the video.

[@fltltcrashcrocker5017]

Thank you for your comment. You will enjoy the book. Its very well written. It has been a good number of years since I read it last. Maybe I should read it again.

[@TcpIpNut]

​@@fltltcrashcrocker5017 You're welcome. I'm mostly a fantasy/science fiction/fiction reader but, I'm certainly enjoying Nine Lives. As a young man, my father visited and wanted to tour Gettysburg. I didn't have much interest but went and greatly enjoyed myself. He also lent me the following book which I greatly enjoyed as well. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (The Civil War: 1861-1865 Book 2) Kindle Edition by Michael Shaara “My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.” -James M. McPherson In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history, two armies fought for two conflicting dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Bright futures, untested innocence, and pristine beauty were also the casualties of war. Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is unique, sweeping, unforgettable-the dramatic story of the battleground for America’s destiny. +++++++++++++++ Here is an excerpt from the 1975 Pulitzer Prize jury report, written by Carlos Baker of Princeton University. December 16, 1974 I should like to add to the comments of my fellow-judges that The Killer Angels seems to me much more than a historical novel: it is a very disciplined imagination of the four days of skirmish and battle, an exploration of the minds and motivations of responsible officers in the midst of the conflict. Having read it, I feel that I understand men at war, I understand the war itself, I understand the whole battle as a human and martial and geographical and sociological and logistic phenomenon better than I ever have before, although for years I have been on the edges of Civil War buffhood. I could go on for some hundreds of words, but let it suffice here to say that in our several ways all of us were picked up and borne forward by the force of the narrative. Despite the diversity of points of view, it is a remarkable unit. The book contains no hokum, and the portraits limned are sharp and admirable. So we nominate this one novel and hope very ardently that the Advisory Board on the Pulitzer Prizes will see eye to eye with us in this selection. We cannot bow out of this long task without telling you how much we appreciate your sense of responsibility, your patience, and your kindness from last summer to now. We all join in wishing you a merry Christmas and a better than average new year. Yours very sincerely, Carlos Baker Chairman, Fiction Jury