Three stories converge when a professor and an apathetic student discuss the nature of activism, a Republican senator tries to sell a journalist on the government's new miltary strategy, and two of the professor's former students fighting in Iraq find themselves trapped behind enemy lines.

"Albert Nelson See was a soldier in the Civil War and served in two different enlistments. This diary was written in 1864 January 1 through December 31) while he was a member of Co. K 150th PV (Pennsylvania Volunteers) known as the Buck Tails who served as guards fpr President Lincoln at the White House and at his other residence at Soldiers Home"--from introduction by Betty (See) Kessler.

"AN ENDLESS WAR. A BLOOD-SOAKED BATTLEFIELD. A BAND OF BROTHERS. The epic sequel to Essex Dogs, continuing the New York Times bestselling historian's trilogy of novels following the fortunes of ten ordinary soldiers during the Hundred Years' War. 1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting-and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent...