Paths of Glory Biography A marvelous tale of an

A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import

Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on to Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers

in present-day publications and TV documentary programs – many did not

and in this study Lee connects the man and his life to an American heroic ideal

whose misplaced optimism

Paths of Glory Biography A marvelous tale of anDescription by Humphrey Cobb Paperback Familiar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory explores the perilous complications involved in what nations demand of their soldiers in wartime. Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen during the First World War whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and terrible turn when they are ordered to assault a German position deemed all but invulnerable. When the attack fails,