Custer: Lessons in Leadership (Great Generals)

by Duane Schultz

Wesley K. Clark (Foreword)

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Colorful, charismatic, and controversial, George Armstrong Custer became a national hero at the age of twenty-three when he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general - barely two years after graduating at the bottom of his class from West Point. He was idolized both by his men and by the American public, though he endured two courts-martial and temporary dismissal from the Army. Custer pushed himself harder and longer than most, owing to an intense ambition to succeed and a hunger for glory and fame. He was contemptuous of danger, taking chances that no one else would take,...Read more
  • ISBN10 0230114245
  • ISBN13 9780230114241
  • Publish Date 21 November 2011 (first published 29 September 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Language English