Last Battle
Causes and Effects of the Massacre at Wounded Knee

This is historical narrative history at its finest and though first published in 1966 it has stood the test of time. Generally narrative history is not my style of presentation but it was very hard to fault the author’s ability to take this reader along the journey of all the participants. Be they t......more

There is no easy way to put to words something with such enormity as the last battle in the deadliest military conflict in history. And yet, Cornelius Ryan manages to do just that not with the use of staggering statistics, but with a series of stories that even my simple human mind could comprehend.......more

Meticulously researched and detailed, using personal accounts of survivors and their letters and diaries to give the history a more narrative feel. Ryan is best know for his war-histories-made-into-movies 'A Bridge to Far' and 'The Longest Day.' Both are invaluable accounts of momentous western-fron......more

Typical sprawling Ryan--not much new, but he sure brings back some great diary-captured dialogue. And who knew that around April 25th, 1945, Major Werner Pluskat slipped quietly away from Wenck's 12th Army, swam across the Elbe, and surrendered to the Americans (Bradley)? You may recall Pluskat from......more