Paths of Glory Biography Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on

Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on to Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers

whose misplaced optimism

sometimes with devastating consequences

pitied the Belgians

and two untested American divisions

Paths of Glory Biography Clara Barton fearlessly ventured onDescription by Humphrey Cobb Paperback Familiar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory explores the perilous complications involved in what nations demand of their soldiers in wartime. Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen during the First World War whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and terrible turn when they are ordered to assault a German position deemed all but invulnerable. When the attack fails,