Book Review
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Nathaniel Philbrick
- Viking
- 2010
- ★★★★★
Compelling narrative and balanced analysis. Cuts through the myth of Custer and presents the whole campaign in an engaging story.
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