title: The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee
author: Robert E. Lee
description: Dustjacket is tattered at edges. Book slgihtly warped.
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  For the Chicago girl I met in Washington one afternoon— Who stayed for all
  these adventures. Lori.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  "Go, set the world on fire." —Ignatius of Loyola
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  It was another bad morning in the Pentagon. A sudden power surge in the
  electrical subbasement had shut down every computer in this part of the
  building, which was a series of wood-paneled corridors leading off C ring. It
  had rained hard during the night and the roof had leaked again and a storeroom
  full of computer printouts that contained analysis of the Mediterranean
  terrorist threat for the coming fiscal year was ruined when the ceiling
  collapsed.
  
  
  
  
  
  At least G2 hadn't screwed up. There was that.
  
  
  
  
  
  Brig. Gen. Robert E. Lee was very angry as usual, and if G2 had not sent down
  the videotape cartridge when it did, he would have gone up there and chewed
  ass, and it would not have been about the videotape but the prob