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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780595455423
ISBN: 0595455425
Label: iUniverse, Inc.
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 234
Publication Date: September 12, 2007
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Sales Rank: 59319
Studio: iUniverse, Inc.
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Product Description:
A controversial evaluation, Custer Vindicated challenges the historical views on the Battle of the Little Big Horn that depict Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer as an incompetent leader.
In this his fourth book on Custer, Jack L. Pennington presents the results of his most recent research and the evidence that proves Custer was not at fault for the loss of his five companies or the defeat suffered by the 7th Cavalry. He critiques three well-known writers’ views as he lays the groundwork for reassessment of the long-time inference that the decisions Lt. Colonel Custer made until he reached Medicine Tail Coulee were not militarily sound. Pennington also explores the roles played by the Reno Court of Inquiry and the 7th Cavalry officers in making Custer a historic scapegoat.
Whatever you have read about or heard from other experts on the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Pennington encourages you to consider questions that have never been asked regarding a famous battle that, to this day, still remains one of the greatest conflicts in U.S. history.
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Largely Compelling
I found this book quite compelling, and a good summary of the opinions that I have held for years.While it could have done with a stiff editing job and some of the stridency and tone of the book undermine its otherwise sound logic, if you can overlook those faults, it does present a very supportable theory about the fiasco of the Little Big Horn battle.
Any serious and thoughtful student of George Custer and the battle itself (and I might add that to express any reasonable theory ... Read More
Rating:  - Custer the scapegoat
I agree that Custer has been the scapegoat all of these years. Though far from a perfect human (who is) Custer is the most misalingned slandered historical figure in American History. Too bad there aren't some brave directors and actors in liberal hollywood with enough guts to tell the real story on film based on true historical facts.....May Custer's soul rest in peace!
Rating: - \\\\\custer Vindicated at last
So someone has at last said what needed to be said, Custer while no saint was no better or worse than those around him. His big mistake was getting himself and his command killed and therefore was never able to answer all the slur's thrown against him. Grant always pointed out the high casualty rate of Custer's units, who is he to talk look at his own Civil War record (Cold Harbor to name but one disaster). Custer is not blameless in what happened at LBH but there are a lot of other factors as this ... Read More
Rating: - Shot at Ford B
Excellent and very thorough piece of work.Beats the frustrating `chest-beating' that emanates from the many `knowledgeable' LBH fanatics on the Custer/LBH web forums.
I like his suggestions, but there are gaps...
From reading other work I am not sure Custer was at Ford B.
Rating: - It was about time someone wrote this kind of book... very good.
Was Custer a fool?
Was Custer overconfident?
and what's more... for all his faults... WAS THERE A COVER UP?
The author makes a very convincing thesis (specially for Custerophiles) about the incongruence's of Reno's Court of Inquiry... the main points he raises are:
Does anyone believe Custer HAD NO PLAN?
Does anyone believe Custer THOUGHT there was no village?
Does anyone believe the "OFFICIAL" version about HIS TACTICAL ORDERS that day?
What about ... Read More
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