A review by bufally47
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick

3.0

Pretty well-structured for military history book. You get to hear the battle from not only the perspectives of Reno and Benteen, but also of Sitting Bull and (to a lesser extent) Crazy Horse and a few more common soldiers on each side. Of course it's a bit anti-climactic since no one knows exactly what happened with Custer's battalion (no survivors), but the grim description of the post-battle field is jaw-dropping. More importantly, it accomplished what The Killer Angels accomplished: making each man seem truly human -- flawed and complex. 3.5