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Crazy Horse And Custer

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The Epic Clash of Two Great Warriors at the Little Bighorn

by Stephen E. Ambrose
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/07/2003
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From bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose, a dual biography of two great nineteenth century warriors, General Custer and Crazy Horse, and the Battle of Little Bighorn. On June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode towards the banks of the Little Bighorn where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great war leaders would soon become forever linked: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. This masterly dual biography tells the epic story of the lives of these two men: both were fighters of legendary daring, both became honoured leaders in their societies when still astonishingly young, and both died when close to the supreme political heights. Yet they - like the nations they represented - were as different as day and night. Custer had won his spurs in the American Civil War; his watchword was 'To promotion - or death!' and his restless ambition characterized a white nation in search of expansion and progress. Crazy Horse fought for a nomadic way of life fast yielding before the buffalo-hunters and the incursions of the white man.
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
Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen E. Ambrose, leading World War II historian, was the author of numerous books on history including the Number 1 bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, D-DAY (on which SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was based) PEGASUS BRIDGE and WILD BLUE.

He is founder of the Eisenhower Center and the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. He died in 2002.

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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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