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The Last Buffalo Soldier
After the war, Willis Atkins receives no hero's welcome at his new post in Georgia - until he meets Dolores Williams. A tragic romance and multi-generational saga spanning the 1940s to the 1990s.
First-Sergeant Willis Atkins survived the war in Europe only to encounter violent racism at his new post in rural Georgia. As Truman integrates the Army and the war in Korea ignites, he falls for a defiant and outspoken nurse while managing a ramshackle cadre of black cavalrymen. Decades later, as his heart begins to fail, he reflects on those tumultuous years as he struggles to inspire his rebellious grand-daughter and a troubled inner-city boy.
Revised and expanded edition, February 28th 2017
First-Sergeant Willis Atkins survived the war in Europe only to encounter violent racism at his new post in rural Georgia. As Truman integrates the Army and the war in Korea ignites, he falls for a defiant and outspoken nurse while managing a ramshackle cadre of black cavalrymen. Decades later, as his heart begins to fail, he reflects on those tumultuous years as he struggles to inspire his rebellious grand-daughter and a troubled inner-city boy.
Revised and expanded edition, February 28th 2017
204 pages, Paperback
First published April 15, 2015
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About the author
Michael S. Nuckols
12 books3 followersMichael S. Nuckols' first novel, "The Winter Calf", was inspired by his childhood in the hills of Virginia. The eerie story of a woman haunted by her lost son continues in the 2016 sequel, "The Wasted Grave". The third installment the Maple Gap Series, "The Whispering Souls," was released in July 2016 and visits the Mayfield family two years after the end of "The Winter Calf".
Michael has published two stand-alone novels. "Frozen Highway" tells the contemporary story of a militia leader threatening a former soldier and her family in rural Alaska. Similarly, "The Last Buffalo Soldier" follows a war-hero fighting discrimination in the segregated South of the 1950s. He has also published several short stories.
In 2018, Michael crossed firmly into the realm of speculative science fiction with the release of "Emergent: Book 1 of the Cerenovo Series." Books 2 and 3 will be released throughout the Spring.
Michael currently lives on a farm with his spouse in northern New York and wakes every morning to a herd of Ayrshire dairy cattle. He has also lived in coastal Virginia, west-central Georgia, and, most recently, rural Alaska.
Michael has published two stand-alone novels. "Frozen Highway" tells the contemporary story of a militia leader threatening a former soldier and her family in rural Alaska. Similarly, "The Last Buffalo Soldier" follows a war-hero fighting discrimination in the segregated South of the 1950s. He has also published several short stories.
In 2018, Michael crossed firmly into the realm of speculative science fiction with the release of "Emergent: Book 1 of the Cerenovo Series." Books 2 and 3 will be released throughout the Spring.
Michael currently lives on a farm with his spouse in northern New York and wakes every morning to a herd of Ayrshire dairy cattle. He has also lived in coastal Virginia, west-central Georgia, and, most recently, rural Alaska.
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July 13, 2017
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I kept hearing the voice of Morgan Freeman playing the part of Willis as I read the book. It was so real, a man in an important position during the war as long as he was over seas but the minute he stepped home in his own country he was once again subjected to discrimination in his military position and in his personal life. This was at a time when integration of the military was an executive order, an order that had somehow not made to the bases on U.S. soil.
This was truly a very good book. Can't wait to see what this author writes next.
I kept hearing the voice of Morgan Freeman playing the part of Willis as I read the book. It was so real, a man in an important position during the war as long as he was over seas but the minute he stepped home in his own country he was once again subjected to discrimination in his military position and in his personal life. This was at a time when integration of the military was an executive order, an order that had somehow not made to the bases on U.S. soil.
This was truly a very good book. Can't wait to see what this author writes next.
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