In 1994, the Rwanda government began killing its Tutsi minority people and 800,000 were murdered. Gourevitch details the genocide's background and aftermath.
Wars
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Author:Gourevitch, PhilipSummary: - Author:Lucas, WalterSummary:
Raised by Kiowa tribesmen, Boytale is now 17 years old and filled with an insatiable thirst for the blood of his people's enemies. Across the prairie at Fort Levenworth, Kansas, 20-year-old army private James Rambling gears up for...
- Author:Warren, StephenSummary:
By tracking Shawnee people from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands...
- Author:Milloy, John SheridanSummary:
The first economic, military, and diplomatic history of the Plains Cree from contact with the Europeans in the 1670s to the disappearance of the buffalo from Cree lands by the 1870s, focussing on military and trade relations between...
- Author:Ostler, JeffreySummary:
Ostler recounts the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homeland and their remarkable legal battle to regain it. Moving from battlefields to reservations to Supreme Court chambers, Ostler captures the strength that bore the...
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Author:Marshall, JosephSummary:Presents a biography of the peerless warrior who defeated the U.S. Army at the Battle of Little Bighorn. To his fellow Lakota Indians, Crazy Horse was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who, with valor, spirit, respect, and...
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Author:Summary: - Author:Philbrick, NathanielSummary:
When English Separatists flee to Holland, Dutch urban life corrupts their children and weakens their families. Convinced that God is leading them to the New World, these devout Pilgrims bravely cross the Atlantic. But after violent...
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
McMurtry turns his attention to George A. Custer, a complex man who has captivated historians for over a century. From graduating last in his class at West Point to leading the ill-fated 7th Cavalry in the attack at Little Bighorn,...
- Author:Brown, DeeSummary:
Dee Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
- Author:Lucas, WalterSummary:
In 1874, the vast plains of Texas are home to buffalo, the Comanche, and the Kiowa tribes. When the white men come to hunt the great beasts and drive the Indians out, the tribes gather and head to their towns armed for war.
- Author:Lucas, WalterSummary:
After the epic battle of Adobe Walls, Lt. Frank Baldwin and former buffalo hunter Billy Dixon lead a band of Indian and white scouts into Texas to assist the U.S. 5th Infantry combat unruly natives. But as they are drawn into a series...
- Author:Kelton, ElmerSummary:
Returning to his farm, Texas Ranger Rusty Shannon hopes to marry, but discovers home is not what it used to be. His former sweetheart is already hitched, and disgruntled soldiers from both sides are spreading across the land. The real...
- Author:Huebner, AndrewSummary:
Army scout James Bradley, documented as the first person to discover the massacre, and his two men are ordered to follow the trail of the Sioux Indians reportedly responsible. August Huebner and William Gentle lead the rest of the...
