Last Stand - Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn

Informationen zum Autor Nathaniel Philbrick is an historian and broadcaster whose books include In the Heart of the Sea , which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won America's National Book Award (and is director Ron Howard's major new film), Sea of Glory (winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize), Mayflower , a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the Sunday Times bestselling The Last Stand. He lives on Nantucket Island and is the founding director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association. Klappentext Subtitled, "Custer, Sitting Bull & The Battle Of The Little Big Horn". A new history of this decisive American battle, which brilliantly reconstructs the build-up to the conflict, and vividly brings to life all those involved. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible odds or of insane arrogance receiving its rightful comeuppance, this title continues to captivate the imagination. It reconstructs the build-up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn through to the final eruption of violence.

Product details

• Authors: Nathaniel Philbrick, Philbrick Nathaniel
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9780099521242
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952124-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Battles & campaigns, Battles and campaigns