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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Epic Clash of Two Great Warriors at the Little Bighorn

Door Stephen E. Ambrose

Categorie
Verenigde Staten & Canada
Boeknummer
#374623-XB42
Titel
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Epic Clash of Two Great Warriors at the Little Bighorn
Auteur
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Pocket Books
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
0743468643
ISBN13
9780743468640
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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... (Lees verder) 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.
Pagina's
527
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 6,00

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