Man of War

A rollicking good ride. --Jay Winik bestselling author of <i>April 1865 </i> <p/>It's the middle of a heat wave and Charlie Schroeder is dressed in heavy clothing and struggling to row a replica eighteenth-century bateau down the St. Lawrence River. Why? Months earlier Schroeder realized he knew almost nothing about history. But he wanted to learn so the actor--best known for his role as Mr. Pussy on <i>Sex and the City</i>--spent a year reenacting it. <p/><i>Man of War</i> is Schroeder's hilarious account of the time he spent chasing Celts in Arkansas raiding a Viet Cong village in Virginia and flirting with frostbite en route to Stalingrad in Colorado. Along the way he illuminates just how much the past can teach us about the present.