The Battlefield Can Be an Unforgiving Teacher
By JANET MASLIN
THE UNFORGIVING MINUTE
A Soldier’s Education
By Craig M. Mullaney
Illustrated. 386 pages. The Penguin Press. $28.95.
“The Unforgiving Minute” is former United States Army Capt. Craig M. Mullaney’s brisk, candid memoir about his education as a soldier. He learned different lessons in different places. As a cadet at West Point he learned to be dutiful, punctilious and unerringly accurate, even about the military method of folding underwear. At Ranger School he learned how to navigate difficult physical terrain and endure grueling tests of mettle. At Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar, he had a teacher who advised: “Read and think. Simultaneously if possible.” At home he thought he had learned how to make his father proud — until that father walked out and never came back.
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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/books/26masl.html