A powerful new volume of missives about combat by General Sherman, Ernest Hemingway, J. R. R. Tolkien, Kurt Vonnegut, and more, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections Defeated Cossacks taunt the pompous sultan of the Ottoman Empire. A black corporal beseeches President Lincoln to ensure that his regiment receives proper payment for performing their duties. Joan Baez defies the IRS in opposition to the Vietnam...