Seize the Sky : Son of the Plains (Sons of the Plains)

Rating:
Summary: A Spellbinding History Lesson
Review: "Seize The Sky" is another Terry C. Johnston masterpiece!
I read this book alongside the Official Little Bighorn Battlefield National Park Handbook. "Seize the Sky" was historically accurate to the letter.
Mr. Johnston vividly portrayed the personalities of George Armstrong Custer, his commanders and scouts as well as the Sioux and Cheyenne leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse and their warriors.
After Mr. Johnston introduced me to General Custer, it became obvious why he led his 7th Cavalry into history on that fateful June day in 1876.
Mr. Johnston's writing is magnificently vivid. He puts you on the battlefield; the sights, the sounds, the smells amid the oppressive heat of that summer day. My skin crawled when he described the soldiers of L Company in the tall grass of Calhoun Hill. Those panic stricken moments when their Springfield carbines jammed and they frantically tried to pry the empty casings from the rifle's superheated chambers with screaming death and mutilation only seconds away. No one can put you there better than Terry C. Johnston!
Forget the textbooks. "Seize the Sky" should be required reading in any American history classroom.