Davis, Paxton

A fictional account told in the first person by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Scott, and Roald Amundsen of the motives that drove them and the physical and psychological difficulties they encountered in their attempts to be "first at the South Pole.".

Relates one writer's experience of how luck, fatigue, and fear played leading roles in determining soldiers' fates during a war fought mostly by boys, many of whom, like Davis learned far more than they cared to about life and death before reaching voting age.

Describes the battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of Robert E. Lee, following that great general from his entry into Pennsylvania to the disastrous conclusion for the Confederate troops.

A biography of T. E. Lawrence based on the premise that the contradictory aspects of his life could be reconciled by his "lifelong determination to live out the ideals of chivalry.".