The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 is a book by Martin Dugard.
Martin Dugard is an American author living in Rancho Santa Margarita, Orange County, California. He lives with his wife and three sons. His works include: His 2008 screenplay, A Warrior's Heart, was released in Norway as a feature film starring Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene. It was also presented... at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and it will be released in the United States on 2 December 2011. In addition, Dugard's blog, The Paper Kenyan, offers readers a daily riff on history, endurance sports, and travel. Dugard regularly immerses himself in his research to understand characters and their motivations better. To better understand Columbus he traveled through Spain, the Caribbean and Central America. He followed Henry Morton Stanley’s path across Tanzania while researching Into Africa and swam in the tiger shark-infested waters of Hawaii’s Kealakekua Bay to recreate Captain James Cook’s death for Farther Than Any Man.more
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be factual. This... presentation may be accurate or not—that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question—however, it is generally assumed that authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition or, at least, pose them to their audience as historically or empirically true. Note that reporting the beliefs of others in a non-fiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the ultimate veracity of those beliefs, it is simply saying it is true that people believe them . Non-fiction can also be written about fiction, giving information about these other works. Non-fiction is one of the two main divisions in writing, particularly used in libraries, the other form being fiction. However, non-fiction need not be written text necessarily, since pictures and film can also purport to present a factual account of a subject.more