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WesternLarge Print EditionA startling novel . . . rigorously authentic in its period detail. starred, Publishers WeeklyA tour de force. Kirkus Reviews* Soon to be a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt as Custer.George Armstrong Custer West Pointer, youngest Union general of the Civil War, horseman, passionate lover, explorer, ardent husband, and most famously, Indian hunter. Here is an impeccable merger of fact and fiction, a powerful evocation of our bloody past, and a tribute to the endurance of a human heart facing adversity and disaster. Michael Blake reveals a Custer never before imagined, and lets us finally contemplate the twisted, uncharted paths of glory and doom.
Amazon.com Review
Like a vampire who won't die, Custer rises once again from the grave. In the 1970s, a wave of books and movies, most notably the film "Little Big Man" and the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, seemed to have finally driven a wooden stake through the heart of that particular myth, transforming Custer from legendary hero to monstrous megalomaniac and racist. March to Valhalla hauls Custer back out of the coffin, seemingly as good as new. Written by Michael Blake, author of Dances With Wolves, March to Valhalla comes in the form of a diary that Custer supposedly wrote in the five weeks before his death. In Blake's incarnation, Custer rides again, a fearless, noble, warrior with a flair for romance.
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