Reviews for Marching to Valhalla: A Novel of Custer's Last Days

The average rating for Marching to Valhalla: A Novel of Custer's Last Days based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-07 00:00:00 Lisamarie Stout What if George Armstrong Custer kept a journal during the ill-fated Montana expedition that ended with his death near the Little Bighorn? What if the journal encompassed his life and military career beginning with the Civil War right on up to the day before his last battle? If there had been such a journal, the result would be this book. Far-fetched? Not really. Custer was an accomplished writer who had one book and numerous magazine articles to his credit. Michael Blake, better known as the author of Dances With Wolves (which by the way, is better than the movie and is about the Comanche and not the Sioux), is able to take on the persona of Col. Custer to such a degree that it is almost possible at times to forget that it is a work of fiction

Review # 2 was written on 2021-07-31 00:00:00 Gerry Keffer Marching to Valhalla: A Novel of Custer’s Last Days by Michael Blake (Villard Books 1996) (Fiction) (3556). The conceit employed here is that Custer kept a journal until he died in battle. Author Michael Blake has written a narrative that convincingly captures the young general's spirit. As I neared the end of the book, I was really looking forward to how the author would present Custer’s own account of the Battle of Little Bighorn. You have surely spotted the fatal flaw in my reckoning: Custer could not have written a journal entry recounting the battle, for by the time the battle ended, Custer was in Valhalla. Well duh. My rating: 7/10, finished 7/31/21 (3556).