Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0452008697 ISBN 13 : 9780452008694

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

"Few soldiers have found as much fame in defeat as George Armstrong Custer, and few victorious warriors have suffered a fate as poignant as that of Crazy Horse, the Sioux leader who helped defeat him at the Little Bighorn...This superb parallel history examines the societies which created the two men and made their eventual collision on the battlefield inevitable"
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Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0452008697
• ISBN 13: 9780452008694
• Reliure: Broché
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