To escape a tragic love affair, Henry Childs enlists in the Marines and is thrown into the Korean War, and though the challenges of war leave him scarred and haunted, the difficulties he faces upon his return home are greater by far.
Aging cavalryman Napoleon Childs leads a ragtag group of men into the Mexican desert in search of Pancho Villa in 1916, and after a brutal encounter in which most of his men are killed and he is spared only to be left for dead, Childs has time to think about what it means to choose a life of war.
Relying on his horse as his protector, fourteen-year-old Robey Childs travels out into the battlefields of the Civil War on a mission to find his father and is forever changed by the destruction he sees.
Relying on his horse as his protector, fourteen-year-old Robey Childs travels out into the battlefields of the Civil War on a mission to find his father and is forever changed by the destruction he sees.
