Following his unlikely but decisive (and immensely popular) 1876 victory over Sitting Bull & the Sioux at the Little Big Horn George Armstrong Custer is propelled into the White House in 1880 Two years later he finds himself bored & seeks new worlds to conquer He & his wife Libbie fixate on Spain&s decaying empire as his source for immortality What President Custer doesn&t quite comprehend is that the US military isn&t up to such a venture When a group of Americans on a ship headed for Cuba is massacred war becomes inevitable
- & unless calmer patriotic citizens & soldiers can find a way to avoid debacle this war may be America&s last stand!