Dimensions
162 x 242 x 43mm
A chronicle of one of the most pivotal eras in American history by the author of the international best-seller 'Ghost Soldiers'
In the autumn of 1846 the Navajo warrior Narbona looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole life. He saw that it was true that an army of blue-suited soldiers had swept in from the east and defeated his old enemy. But what did the arrival of these ‘New Men’ mean for the Navajo?
Narbona could not know that the ‘Army of the West’ was only the vanguard of an inexorable tide fuelled by a self-righteous ideology know as Manifest Destiny.
Hampton Sides’s extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. 'Blood and Thunder' is a chronicle of one of a pivotal era in American history: grand in scope, immediate in detail, impeccably researched and historically revelatory.
