Marine General Tony Zinni was known as the "Warrior Diplomat"during his nearly forty years of service. As a soldier, hiscredentials were impeccable, whether leading troops in Vietnam,commanding hair-raising rescue operations in Somalia, or-asCommander-in-Chief of CENTCOM-directing strikes against Iraq and AlQaeda. But it was as a peacemaker that he made just as great amark-conducting dangerous troubleshooting missions all over Africa,Asia, and Europe; and then serving as Secretary of State ColinPowell's special envoy to the Middle East, before disagreementsover the 2003 Iraq War and its probable aftermath caused him toresign. This is his story-and that of his beloved Marine Corps-from thecauldron of Vietnam to the realities of the post-9/11 military, astold by none other than Tom Clancy.
This original paperback brings together for the first time allof Donald Hall’s writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home inNew Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy andthen lived with his wife Jane Kenyon until her death. It includesthe entire, previously published Seasons at Eagle Pond and Here atEagle Pond; the poem “Daylilies on the Hill” from The Painted Bed;and several uncollected essays.
