Custer and the Sioux, Durnford and the Zulus

The late Paul Williams worked in the television and film industries as a writer, producer and director. He wrote several books about the American frontier and the Civil War. He lived in Melbourne, Australia.

• Table of ContentsPrologue delete 11. Their Land Is Ours delete 32. Deception and Deceit delete 223. The Impossible Ultimatum delete 294. The ­Three-Column Plan delete 385. The ­Three-Column Advance delete 546. The Divided Command delete 797. The Last Man, the Last Bullet delete 998. Besieged delete 1269. Finding the Dead and the Living delete 14210. So Who Was to Blame? delete 15611. The Fading Comet delete 16612. Aftermath delete 178Appendix A: Report on the Battle of the Little Big Horn (Reno)Report (Benteen)Appendix B: The Court of Inquiry (Isandlwana)Chapter Notes delete 199Bibliography delete 205Index delete 207

“Paul Williams is to be commended for marshaling relevant sources and identifying key parallels between commanders and battles in his suggestive comparative study”—Michigan War Studies Review; “insightful...brilliantly reproduced photographs...the numerous maps are models of clarity and precision”—True West.