is a triumph and a tour de force. Lynn Seldon has written one of the best books about a military college ever written. With the publication of , he joins the distinguished ranks of our military academy graduates who have written about the life changing, fire tested tribe. It reminded me of James Webb's about the Naval Academy and Lucian Truscott's about West Point. But Mr. Seldon makes Virginia Military Institute a great test of the human spirit and one of the best places on earth to earn a college degree.
Pat Conroy