Nathaniel Philbrick

Broschiertes Buch

The Last Stand

Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn

Beschreibung

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.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780099521242
• ISBN-10: 0099521245
• Artikelnr.: 33155760