Mountstuart dines with Bloomsburyites, meets Joyce in Paris, spends the Spanish Civil War hobnobbing with Hemingway and the Second World War trailing the Duke of Windsor for British Intelligence.
And it struck me that along these Civil War trails, the revivifying sight of so much glorious countryside is not the paradox I had imagined but a necessary restorative to the human spirit.
THINGS TO DO The Alton Visitors Center offers the Lincoln and Civil War Legacy Trail, a self-guided tour of town monuments.
WESTHAMPTON BEACH - THE hospitality at the Air National Guard base at Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach was befitting for a stop on a cold war heritage trail.
The delay in creating the first Civil War heritage trail is only partly explained by Spain's chronic inability to find closure for some of the conflict's legacies.
Re "On War Criminals' Trail, an Unflagging Hunter" (The Saturday Profile, Feb. 9), about Carla Del Ponte, the United Nations war crimes prosecutor: You say "motherliness does not immediately come to mind in the case of Switzerland's most prominent woman".
At their best, these books offer powerful sequences, in Homeric and Virgilian patterns, about thoughtful men and brave women trying to make sense of traumatic, large-scale events — the Civil War, the Trail of Tears — as they unfold in their private lives and relationships.
But the authors have taken pains to answer those quibbles, and they disclose their sources so that readers can add or subtract as they see fit.They go on to pursue the war's trail through every twist and turn of the macroeconomic labyrinth.
But he has compiled a list of sites, cataloging their condition and historical significance, and he has spoken with state parks officials, pressing for some official recognition of a cold war heritage trail that would include sites from Montauk to Huntington.
