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by Stephen E. Ambrose (Author) "The Great Plains of North America, on a cloudless day, stretch out forever under an infinity of bright blue sky ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; 1st Anchor Books Trade Pbk. Ed edition (6 Oct 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0385479662
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385479660
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,465,690 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A dual portrait of the leader of the Oglala Sioux and the general of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry in 1876 cites the battle of June 25th and chronicles the sometimes striking similiarities of the lives of both men.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, 31 Oct 2004
This review is from: Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors (Paperback)
The same as a few other readers of this book, I bought this primarly for the reason that it had been written by Ambrose.
Before I read the book I thought that it could get bogged down in the politics of the day and would probably become very difficult to read.

However my first inpressions were totally wrong! Once I turned the first page I couldn't put it down and had read it in a couple of days.

Not only is this book very easy to get through, it is also very detailed and informative. Two things that some authors find very difficult to achieve but as always Ambrose manages to pull it off.
This should definitely be the number one stop for readers who are interested in this subject but have never been able to find an in-road.

I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did.

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly Surprised, 18 Sep 2003
By J A Bruce (Glasgow, Lanarkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors (Paperback)
Like the previous reviewer I picked this book in my local bookshop, looking for something different and somehow expecting to tire of it pretty soon.I was engrossed almost immediately and found the style of writing though factual, very interesting.
As I followed the parallel lives of Custer and Crazy Horse I experienced awe, anger and sadness as our European ancestors enforced their `civilised' ways upon the `savages'.
At this time the same actions were being forced upon Africa, the relevance being I recently read `The scramble for Africa' by Thomas Pakenham and would recommend you read this to compare the two.
The diaries of Custer and his wife's novels give this book a feeling of authenticity and destroy many myths.
I felt quite saddened as the tale came to an end but realised the native american way of life could not have survived till today in it's simplicity.
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An elegy for a lost way of life., 31 July 2003
By G. P. Akerman "g p a" (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors (Paperback)
Ambrose is a born story-teller, and the events of these two men’s lives provides excellent raw material. The notes at the book’s rear suggest a thoroughly academic approach – but Ambrose is at his best when speculating on the inner world of the twin “warriors” (as he calls them). The descriptions are powerful and evocative, the style that of a novel. His account is even-handed throughout, neither seeking to defend Custer nor sentimentalising native Americans. Custer himself comes across surprisingly sympathetically: though clearly vain and foolish in Ambrose’s estimation, the man described here is far more interesting, contradictory and generally appealing than I’d expected from revisionist films and books. Ambrose’s admiration is reserved for Crazy Horse, however, who is presented as a dignified and committed freedom fighter.

In a way, the book is as much about the collision of a European mind-set with a traditional Native American way of life as it is about the fighting between these two specific leaders at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Ambrose makes it clear that the Sioux Nation was eventually defeated by railways and venture capitalism, not the 7th Cavalry – and he reminds us that much of what we think of as “American” can be related back to military acts which uncomfortably resemble twentieth-century genocides and ethnic cleansings. As he states, anyone who lives on the Western coast of the US, or who has travelled across the continent by train, is directly benefiting from the actions of men like Custer.

This edition is a reprint from the 1970s; thus, we have “red men” and “indians” rather than more politically correct terms. However, a reader would have to be prudish in the extreme to be put off by such terms when the book provides such a powerful and compelling elegy for a culture perfectly in step with its natural surroundings. A culture which was destroyed to make way for modern America

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good read, but a stretched comparison
I enjoyed reading this book but found that in general Professor Ambrose was a bit too keen to draw comparisons between Custer and Crazy Horse. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars quick review of Crazy Horse and Custer
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Damn Good
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3.0 out of 5 stars A good, well researched read; but not his best.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An unexpected gem
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not much new here
After reading several books on this subject, I did not find much new here. Any parallels drawn between the lives of these two men are indeed a stretch. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Take me to the plains
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