Last Battle, Pamela Dell
Last Battle, Pamela Dell
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Last Battle
Causes and Effects of the Massacre at Wounded Knee

Author: Pamela Dell

Narrator: Various Narrators

Unabridged: 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Capstone Press

Published: 08/10/2017


Synopsis

A few days after Christmas 1890, U.S. cavalry troops surrounded and fired on a band of Lakota Sioux near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The Indians had already surrendered, but when someone fired a shot while the band was being disarmed, chaos broke out. No one knows for sure who fired that first shot, but in the end nearly 300 Lakota lay dead. The massacre at Wounded Knee marked the final conflict between the Sioux and the U.S. Army. How would it affect the lives of the Lakota and change the United States?

Reviews

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

Goodreads review by Mara

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

Goodreads review by Karl

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