Fred Chiaventone: Civil War Saturday

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library is proud to announce the first installment of Civil War Saturday for the 2007 season.

Fred Chiaventone
Chiaventone, a retired cavalry officer and former Professor of International Security Affairs at the US Army's Command and General Staff College, is an expert on military history. His award-winning novels, articles and screenplays have garnered him with wide recognition and literary acclaim. Chiaventone is nationally regarded as an expert on guerilla warfare, counter-terrorism, peacekeeping operations and broadcast media. A historical advisor to film and television productions including Ken Burns' The West, and TNT's The Rough Riders and Two For Texas (winner of the 1999 Western Heritage Award), Chiaventone was also the Military/Historical Advisor and coach for principal actors for Ang Lee's Civil War film Ride With The Devil.

Chiaventone's novel, A Road We Do Not Know: A Novel of Custer at the Little Bighorn was published to rave critical reviews, won the 1999 Ambassador William E. Colby Literary Award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. A painstakingly researched and moving fictional account of the catastrophic Battle of the Little Bighorn, told in gritty detail from both sides of the conflict, it was voted "Best Novel of the Little Bighorn" by the Little Bighorn Historical Association.