Memoirs by U.S. Grant - not what I expected at all.
Rereading The Road to Serfdom by F. Hayek.
Just finished House to House, a memoir of Fallujah by David Bellavia. Absolutely harrowing.
Memoirs by U.S. Grant - not what I expected at all.”
Can you elaborate? I have only sampled them, largely because of the reputation (”the greatest war memoir since Caesar”).
I recall a sort of simple elegant prose, plenty of detail, but not a lot of ornamentation. But, again, I only sampled briefly...interested in your line there about not being what you expected.