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The Civil War has ended. A new wave of settlers is flooding into the West, and, in 1873, gold is discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Caught up in a desperate struggle for their ancestral lands, the Plains Indians, embittered by years of broken treaties, gather for one more stand against the white man. Led by George Armstrong Custer, the famous Battle of the Little Bighorn was also tragically the last stand for the Indians and an end to their way of life.
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出版社周刊评论
George Armstrong Custer is once again brought to life in this saber-rattling, hoof-pounding saga of the legendary general's decade (1866-1876) with the Seventh Cavalry. Custer's arrogance, ambition and bravado brought him fame and glory throughout his career. Politicians, reporters and civilians loved himbut, according to this rare novel from prolific WWII historian Hoyt (199 Days), the Plains Indians, as well as most of the Army, including his officers, hated him. In contrast to his prevailing reputation as a great pathfinder and Indian fighter, Custer is depicted here as a foolhardy martinet, dispensing harsh, brutal discipline to his troopers while ignoring regulations himself. Never hesitant or indecisive, he leads the Seventh Cavalry in a shameful attack on Black Kettle's peaceful Cheyenne village on the Washita River, an attack the Indians neither forgive nor forget. Newspapers call Custer ``Yellow Hair'' but the Sioux and Cheyenne call him ``Squaw Killer'' and ``Thief Chief.'' When Washington decides that the solution to the Indian ``problem'' is genocide, Custer is selected as the best man to impose the final remedy. Once again defying orders, the general foolishly leads the Seventh Cavalry into Sitting Bull's force of 5000 warriors waiting for him on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. Rich in period detail, riveting action and strong characters, this is a fascinating story about bravery, betrayal, incompetence, cowardice and pride. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
Military historian Hoyt (Angels of Death, 1994, etc.) joins a long list of writers who've set out to explain exactly what happened at the Little Bighorn (for the most recent, see Earl Murray's Flaming Sky, p. 804), but his own account improves on none in either particulars or perspective. On June 25, 1876, Brevet General George Armstrong Custer and the 7th US Cavalry attacked a large encampment of Sioux and Cheyenne on the Little Bighorn River and were wiped out to a man. And though no eyewitness left any substantiated account, the event became the centerpiece of hundreds of examinations in print and film. Hoyt's version of the story is particularly mundane and even occasionally silly, running through the well-worn facts leading up to the military debacle, then tossing in a fanciful account of Custer's personal demise at the hands of a warrior named ""Big Muskrat."" Writing more in the manner of a technical report with dialogue than of a novel or even ""novelization,"" Hoyt sprinkles military reports throughout for authenticity, but the dialogue exchanges seem like parody or material for a Saturday Night Live sketch. One running joke, for example, is Grant's and others' irritation that subordinates consistently use Custer's brevet rank--not exactly great comic material. Meanwhile, Grant comes off as an irascible but wise old man; Sherman and Sheridan sound like petulant fraternity boys. Hoyt concludes with a pedantic and generally incorrect assessment of the US government's Native American policies in the form of a ""historical note."" Adequately researched, but pretentious and poorly presented, unworthy of its subject and of Hoyt's reputation. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Probably no event in American history--with the possible exception of the assassination of JFK--has inspired more words than Custer's last stand. So much has been written that one might easily make the mistake of dismissing this latest fictional retelling as merely more of the same. Hoyt, a military historian and acclaimed author, neither romanticizes nor condemns the flamboyant, glory-seeking Custer. Rather, he views him as a mass of contradictions: an excessively cruel military disciplinarian, but also a romantic who disobeyed orders, risking his career, to be near his beloved wife, Libby, when he believed she was in danger. In this entertaining novel, readers will see as perhaps they have never seen before how the political and social climate of 1876 combined with the unique Custer personality to converge in a final conflagration on the great northern plains. Hoyt states in his preface that myth is often a substitute for history in America. Such would not be the case if more historians were able to present their research in such an easily digestible form. --Wes Lukowsky