Reflections On Lee is both a sharply focused chronicle of Lee's life and a brilliant meditation upon the general's career and his place in military history. In this slender volume, Roland fashions a portrait of Lee that should be must reading for students of the war.... In the author's hands, Lee is neither the lost cause icon nor the Marble Man.
Charles P. Roland, Alumni Professor of History emeritus at the University of Kentucky, is the author of several books, including An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War; Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics; Louisiana Sugar Plantations during the Civil War; and My Odyssey through History.