My podcast conversation last week with Michael Walsh didn t allow time for consideration of his book Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost, but at length I recalled part of Leo Strauss s critique of Edmund Burke in Natural Right and History, which remains a point of contention on the 3WHH between me and Lucretia. Anyway, Strauss on this point: regarded it as possible that the victory of the
Larry Pynn is a veteran environmental journalist who has received some 30 awards for his newspaper and magazine writing, including eight Jack Webster Awards. He has written two nonfiction books (Last Stands and The Forgotten Trail), and is a member of The Explorers Club. He lives in Maple Bay, British Columbia, and loves all things ocean be it seafood, kayaking, hiking a
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The Battle of Antietam, the Civil War s deadliest one-day fight. (Thure de Thulstrup, public domain)
There’s an old joke about the housewife who calls her husband on his cell phone during the evening commute. “Be careful, Dear,” she says. “The news says there’s a wrong-way driver on the Beltway.” “A wrong-way driver?” the husband shouts. “There are thousands of them!”
This came to mind while enjoying Michael Walsh’s superb book
Last Stands: Why Soldiers Fight When All Is Lost. Freedom-loving men will fight to the death for all they hold sacred, and Michael’s book is adorned by a moving memoir of his father, a Marine officer during the terrible American retreat from the Chosin Reservoir. The book is enormously popular, and deservedly so.