His entry begins:I’m reading a couple of books right now. One of them is Rick Atkinson’s The Guns at Last Light. It is the third book in his Liberation Trilogy, a history of the Allied liberation of Europe and defeat of Germany and Italy during World War II. Atkinson does a marvelous job of weaving individual narratives of individual officers and soldiers onto a broader strategic stage. His writing is first-rate. I think my dad paid the book the highest compliment when he said...[read on]James L. “Jim” Noles, Jr., is a partner in the Environmental & Natural Resources Section of Balch & Bingham, LLP, in Birmingham, Alabama. An Army brat and former Army officer,
he is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and the University of Texas School of Law. To date, his books have covered a variety of non-fiction subjects and his articles have appeared in such diverse publications as the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Smithsonian Air & Space, Preservation, Urban Land, Continental, Thicket, Portico, Executive Traveler, Alabama Heritage, Mental Floss, America’s Civil War, and the Birmingham News.His latest book is Dog Days: A Life in a Year of a Dog Named Pinot.
The Page 99 Test: Mighty by Sacrifice.
Writers Read: Jim Noles (May 2008).
Writers Read: Jim Noles (August 2009).
Writers Read: Jim Noles.
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