Glorious War: The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer
Thom Hatch
Hardcover; 384 pages
St. Martin’s Press (2013)
Glorious War is a focused biography of George Armstrong Custer’s military service from his 1857 entrance into West Point up to the surrender at Appomattox in 1865. Author Thom Hatch describes the book as a “testament” to Custer, whose name he believes should be listed “alongside the greatest of cavalry commanders.” This free-flowing, partisan narrative of Custer’s heroic Civil War exploits will delight fans of the golden-haired cavalry general.
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