If you're only going to read five books on the Civil War - which is like saying, only eat one french fry - make this one of them. Grant's autobiography, written under excruciating conditions of financial pressure and failing health in the late 1880's, is one of the most unforgettable reads available about the American Civil War.
Terse, simple, and almost painfully modest, Grant takes us through his life - the schooling at West Point (he was too retiring to point out they'd got his middle name wrong at registration, and was mistakenly given the name Ulysses SIMPSON Grant which he used for the rest of his life). The bravery and initiative of the Mexican War. The long, lonely postings in the early '50's to California, a continent away from his wife and beloved young children. The depression, leaving the Army, trying to make it in civilian life, failing at almost everything he tried. Then the war begins in 1861 when Lincoln calls for volunteers. It's typical of Grant that he goes to a little midwest recruiting post and modestly says he might take command of something very small - a company, perhaps? This, for a West Point graduate. From then on the book ceases being merely very interesting and starts becoming a can't-put-down.
The simple and good-hearted soul of the man just shines through his words, and he doesn't get caught up badly in the mid-century Victorian fustery of so much Civil War writing. He tells you what happened and what he thought about it; I remember about Lee at Appomatox, he said that he felt like anything in world after Lee's surrender except gloating over so brave an army as Lee's who had fought so nobly for a cause - even though he also thought it was one of the worst causes for which men had ever fought. His prose just flows through the extraordinary events he helped channel - Shiloh, Vicksburg, The Battle of the Wilderness, the surrender, and all points in between. It's an irreplaceable and wonderful resource and you end up falling big-time for Ulysses S. Grant. Don't miss it.

I first read U.S. Grant's memoirs when I was a college student during the Vietnam War. It helped me a great deal to appreciate how horrific war was and still is and that it should only be suffered when the cause is truly worthwhile. It was in the American Civil War and World War II. It was not in the Vietnam War. It was not our finest hour.

But this book also got me hooked on the history of the American Civil War. It is in my judgment, after more than fifty years and reading perhaps a thousand volumes about this watershed event in our nation's history, the single best written and brutally honest work on that event. Especially so in that it was written first-hand by one of the principal characters in that national and human tragedy.

For those of you really interested in becoming a student of the American Civil War, I recommend it highly, after you read the American Heritage History of the Civil War and before you read Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southhall Freeman and the four book series by Bruce Catton.

If by that time you're not hooked and become a Civil War junkie, you never will be.

Written more as a military memoir than a personal, Grant proves to be an outstanding author as well as a General. Reading this set me off to find more about the General's personal life. I highly recommend to anyone interested in the Civil War, you won't be disappointed.

I enjoyed the work from a number of angles. First, Charles Frontenay had to have burned the midnight oil on his extensive research into the Civil War in general, and this particular focused location/period especially. The merging time line approach is difficult to handle for many, but Charles pulled it off adeptly. Keeping the characters believable instead of heroic was to my liking as well. The story line prevented much by way of predictability, but not so much that it was unpleasant or confusing. All in all, a very good read, especially for people interested in this historical time frame.

TARGET GRANT, 1862 is a fast paced time travel thriller. Harry Vick, a present day Southerner believes the South should have won the Civil War. He assumes that had General Grant of the North been killed, the course of this country's history would have been changed so that the South had won. Vick finds a way
to go back in time with an M1 rifle to assassinate Grant. This is the novel form of a short story Fontenay wrote that ran in ANALOG a few years ago. Fontenay has expanded the premise and given the ending a twist that adds to the work.
TARGET GRANT, 1862 is a great "what if " novel.

I keep coming back to this title where other texts like Foley and Van Dam and Angel come short. All the basic hidden surface and shading techniques from which today's architectures are derived are described in detail. Modeling techniques are left out. My only wish was that there was a more recent collection including current hardware accelerators, plus some modeling techniques like subdivision surfaces and DirectX 8's patches.

This is a wonderful collection of very important papers on image synthesis. It's all there: hidden surface removal, ray tracing, radiosity, texture mapping, and anti-aliasing. The annotated bibliography at the end is very helpful.

Another angry reviewer slumming at Kirkus collecting rejection slips from the small circulation little magazines while booking guests at MSNBC as a day job. Nice capsule summation of western literature though. Molder in obscurity no-name. Or at the 100th annual proceedings of the Modern Language Association, whichever comes first...

The basics of grant writing from start to finish, including locating funding, internet choices, and project management, are packed into a reference which is filled with advice from grant-writing professionals. Plenty of examples of successful funding efforts are included throughout, from sample forms to analysis of the critical components of a proposal. Highly recommended.

The haunts in this novel are both natural and supernatural. All the characters must confront their deepest fears and only the strongest survive. Will give you chills on even the hottest of summer days.

I refuse to give away of this novel's excellent story. Needless to say, for those familiar with Grant's work at least, the characters are as haunted by their own emotions as they are by the supernatural. And the title should be taken literally. Now go out and read it.

The first nottice I had about Burney's book was in a radio program in a spanish station exclusively devoted to classical music. This program was emited on saturday's morning about ten years ago and, during several weeks, all the text as well as music of that time was its content. I remember that in those days I was working in a photographic project and it was a true delight to be developing my pictures listening those wondering memories and music. Now, many years after, I,ve found the book again and I'll try to retake all those sensations.

Published in 1974 Napoleonic Wargaming was the first wargaming book I bought. Given its age, it has wonderful colour photographs of masses of Napoleonic troops battling out on wargames tables. The rule system set out by Grant is now dated but this hardcover book has been a welcome part of my wargaming literature for many years and is a worthy addition to any library on the subject, for the photographs alone.

I read this book a long time ago from my local library and I remember the stories being just fantastic! One sticks out in my mind I can't remember the title but it is about killer mushroom spores from outer space. Well worth the read if you can track it down!