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"In 1876, a green lieutenant named Crofton barely escapes Little Big Horn-where before his startled eyes, Custer is killed by his own enraged men-only to find that his own adventures have just begun. Over the next three years, curiosity, fate, and the schemes of others will take Crofton halfway around the world, from a "whore's war" in Kansas to a rebellion in Cuba to the horrors of the Zulu war in East Africa. Along the way, he will encounter such figures as Grant, Sherman, and Hayes; get shot; find love; endure betrayal-and somehow, through the crucible of blood and fire, arrive at…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2005Berkley Trade · 288 pages · 9780425200223
- Other · English · 2004G.P. Putnam's · 275 pages · 9780399151125
- Other · English · 2004RB Large Print · 266 pages · 9781402579417
Military HistoryOfficersFictionUnited StatesAmericansSoldiersUnited States. ArmyNew York Times reviewed







