Custer and the Sioux, Durnford and the Zulus
Subtitle: parallels in the American and British defeats at the Little Bighorn (1876) and Isandlwana (1879)
By: Paul Williams
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780786497942; 9781476620329
Subjects: Isandlwana, Battle of, South Africa, 1879; Case studies; Military leadership; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876; Command of troops; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Their land is ours; title: Deception and deceit; title: The impossible ultimatum; title: The three-column plan; title: The three-column advance; title: The divided command; title: The last man, the last bullet; title: Besieged; title: Finding the dead and the living; title: So who was to blame; title: The fading comet; title: Aftermath.