The Great Plains of North America provided the stage - and the prize.
Crazy Horse And Custer 1
The Epic Clash of Two Great Warriors at the Little Bighorn
The Great Plains of North America provided the stage - and the prize.
- ISBN:
- 9780743468640
- 9780743468640
- Category:
- Land forces & warfare
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 15-07-2003
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 560
- Dimensions (mm):
- 198x129x38mm
- Weight:
- 0.4kg
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1 Review
This book is an eye opener for an Australian who's knowledge of this period of American history is limited to a relatively sparse reading of history and Hollywood Westerns.
I have read previously (in military history books not western history books) how Crazy Horse is considered to be a great natural tactician.
The book proves this. It also shows that the Sioux and Cheyenne won the battle but lost the war because they didn't have, nor were they interested in, a strategy. They simply wanted to be left alone but were hounded into the ground by the government of the day.
Like Ambrose's other books the description of the battle is well researched and brilliantly presented. It shows it couldn't have been luck but was a brilliant tactical maneuver on the part of Crazy Horse to out flank Custer's out flanking move.
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