The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America by H. W. Brands, H. W. Brands

The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
H. W. Brands, H. W. Brands
Page: 416
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780385547284
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Download eBook

Download free books for ipad ibooks The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America by H. W. Brands, H. W. Brands 9780385547284 (English Edition) PDB iBook FB2

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller An incisive, robust, newly considered history of the epic, nation-shaping clash between William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo in a contest of wills, war, sovereignty, and Manifest Destiny. Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands has an inimitable capacity for page-turning narrative and a unique affinity for a rich complicated story of history informed by very human drama. Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent.

William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in the final battle for what the American West would be: a sparsely settled, wild home where Indian tribes could thrive, or a more densely populated extension of the America to the east of the Mississippi.

Sherman was a well-connected son of Ohio who attended West Point and rose to prominence through his scorched-earth campaigns in the Civil War. Geronimo grew up among the Apache people, hunting wild game for sustenance and roaming freely on the land. After the brutal killing of his wife, children and mother by Mexican soldiers, he became a relentless avenger, raiding Mexican settlements across the American border. When Sherman rose to commanding general of the Army, he was tasked with bringing Geronimo and his followers onto a reservation where they would live as farmers and ranchers and roam no more. But Geronimo preferred to fight.

The Last Campaign is a powerful retelling of a turning point in the making of our nation and a searing elegy for a way of life that is gone.

Items