New York Times Review of THE UNFORGIVING MINUTE
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
"This book’s emphasis is on neither policy nor politics. It is one man’s story, warmly and credibly told, and its focus is on the idealism that he brought to military service. In Captain Mullaney’s mind there is no contradiction between loyally following orders and intelligently wondering what purpose those orders serve....“The Unforgiving Minute” finds both suspense and pathos in the events that took place under its author’s command. Its fierce climactic battle is recreated in searing detail. But what gives this memoir its impact isn’t the external events that it describes. It’s the inner journey of a man who is at first eager to learn as much as he can from service and scholarship. Later on he learns from his mistakes."
