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A review by scottwolfejr
In Love and War by Jim Stockdale
5.0
Having read about Jim Stockdale all over the place, I found my way to him and his wife’s (who had an equally compelling story) account. It’s unfortunate that this amazing book is out of print.
Both Jim & Sybil’s grounded perspectives throughout the SEVEN YEARS of imprisonment is so admirable. Their story was easy to fly through and extremely interesting. And it offers so many lessons.
Writes Stockdale:
“He suffocated in the very bed in which I had slept during my last six months of freedom, the bed from which I arose and departed into this hell. Fickle chance. ‘... the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.’”
Fickle chance. It can almost always be worse.
Both Jim & Sybil’s grounded perspectives throughout the SEVEN YEARS of imprisonment is so admirable. Their story was easy to fly through and extremely interesting. And it offers so many lessons.
Writes Stockdale:
“He suffocated in the very bed in which I had slept during my last six months of freedom, the bed from which I arose and departed into this hell. Fickle chance. ‘... the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.’”
Fickle chance. It can almost always be worse.