• Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Т. Дж. Стайлс
    ISBN: 0307592642, 9780307592644
    Год издания: 2015
    Издательство: Alfred A. Knopf
    Язык: Английский

    From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer’s historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person—capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years).…

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