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This is the first comprehensive and scholarly account of the story of the young Jesus visiting Britain with Joseph of Arimathea. How did Blake’s lines And did those feet... become a national hymn during the Great War? Meet a fascinating cast of characters including the library assistant who became the first Grand Bard of Cornwall, the author of Onward Christian Soldiers, a mystical gynaecologist and the conqueror of Tibet. Discover the eccentric clergymen and the mad Georgian poet who sought to prove that “The Lord was at Glastonbury”. Paul Ashdown MA read Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Early Celtic, and Archaeology and Anthropology, at Clare College, Cambridge. He has lived in the vales of Avalon for thirty years, writing and lecturing extensively on the Glastonbury mythos.

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Custer’s Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighhorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment, worthy of a few newspaper headlines. In defeat, however tactically inconsequential in the larger conflict, Custer became legend. In Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend, Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown bridge the gap between the Custer who lived and the one we’ve immortalized and mythologized into legend. While too many books about Custer treat the Civil War period only as a prelude to the Little Bighorn, Caudill and Ashdown present him as a product of the Civil War, Reconstruction Era, and the Plains Indian Wars. They explain how Custer became mythic, shaped by the press and changing sentiments toward American Indians, and show the many ways the myth has evolved and will continue to evolve as the United States continues to change.

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