Brave Decisions
Moral Courage from the Revolutionary War to Desert Storm

This was a book that I found on the bargain shelf—marked down from 24 dollars to eight dollars, so I decided to try it. It contains the stories of fifteen military men who made the “right” decision in the absence of superior officers who would normally make the decision, or who made decisions contrary to their orders when circumstances required such a decision. What makes the book interesting is that the decisions presented are not those that everyone knows about, but little known but important decisions: Grant during the Mexican War, MacArthur in Mexico in 1914, and Clay and the Berlin airlift, for example. It is these little–known stories that make the book interesting.

— Warren Langdon