Field Books

I am workinkg part time for Planetary of University of Santiago of Chile, and when is necessary watch the moon by telescope, I was received many children to make excursions over moon surface. Then I was used this map, to locate place where astronauts from Apollo 11, put their feet first time on the Moon. I give to children locate trought mirror scope, many moon features: Seas, Hills, craters, until arrive aproximately over site, where man from earth, arrive there. Is very funny to children and adults too.
Fernando Franco Blü.
Rancagua, CHILE.

Both versions of this map are drawn by Antonin Rukl whose Atlas of the Moon in book form is currently the gold standard for readily available paper lunar atlases. While the scale is smaller here, the amount of detail will be sufficient for the vast majority of telescopic observers.

But what distinguishes these maps is how well they're designed. Laminated, folding in quarters and just about the perfect size, it's plain that Sky Publishing meant these to be practical and rugged.

Also, two very nice touches. The lunar surface features are repeated where the map folds so no details are lost "in the ditch". And each map quadrant shows the libration zones.

This map is excellent.

I loved this Mirro-Image of the Moon so much I bought two, one to hang in my bedroom and one to use at the Telescope. With my Celestron C8-SGT and the mirror image I'm not constantly correcting myself and can find eveything so much easier. And its laminated, when helps when the Dew and late night moisture comes in. I have about ten sky atlases, but only this one and another are laminated.

I decided to buy this Mirror-Image field map because I have a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope that also reverses viewed objects. I already had the true-image field map, but I had a lot of difficulty using it because I'm a novice of lunar topography. The reverse map made such a difference in my ability to see and identify landmarks. The map is laminated and folded, separating the moon into four quadrants. This makes it easy to handle and use without worrying about nighttime dew. I took it to an astonomy club star party, and showed several experienced amateurs. None had ever seen this particular map before. It got rave reviews from them too.

Living in the South, I was amazed how we would pass by Civil War sites virtually unmarked and nearly forgotten. This book gives added dimension to a drive from Atlanta to Charleston or Savannah. Excellent recounting of the men and fighting that is then mapped & landmarked for your drive.

I have been to several parks and this guide pointed out some new things to see. The book features good background on the battles and features excellent directions and maps. The book also has good information on the parks and surrounding areas pertaining to if their is a fee to get into the park, nearby hotels/attractions, etc. Good guide and good background info.

The proof of a guidebook is its use. I took this (along with a number of others) on our trip to the South last year. The others stayed in the rental car's trunk and we used this one almost exclusively. Not as in depth as some, but the directions were simple to follow and we appreciated the background information. One caveat -- call first if you absolutely have to eat at one of the recommended restaurants. We found the Kennesaw House in Marietta out of business. (Certainly not the fault of the publisher!) We also enjoyed armchair tours of the sites we didn't make it to.

I have been to many Civil War battlefields on the east coast of the U.S. and this book is highly valuable to me in my touring and researching Civil War Battlefields. The book is coauthored by two scholarly experts on the Civil War, Jay Wertz and Edwin C. Bearss who give excellent summaries to each battle that was fought during the Civil War, but what makes this book especially valuable is the current hotels, bookstores, restaurants and other points of interest near or on the battlefields that are listed. Another worthy thing that the guide has is it's listing of what each battlefiled park has for the visitor such as restrooms, picnic facilities, paths, guided tours, and museums, which are invaluable to the experience. This is a MUST have to anyone who is interested on seeing the great battlefields of Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Shiloh, New Market, etc, firsthand.

This is a great book for any kid who likes soccer. I think every team should have at least one and probably more so they could use the awesome tattoos. I like all the information and the places to write everything. Be sure to give it to someone as a present for the holidays.

This book is soooooo cool!!! My whole team wore the tatoos at a tournement a month ago and we totally rocked. Plus I've learned some cool tricks from the book.

I gave a copy of this book to my 9 year-old niece, and she loves it. Several other girls on her soccer team have picked up the book, too, and now they all sit together after games, filling up the pages. Finding gifts for kids can be hard...but this book will make it easier!

I got it for my daughter(13) and my son (11) stole all his temporary tattoos, so I had to get him one too. I bought the book because I thought she'd like the bright design and the goodies, but I was really glad to seem them sitting together, filling in the blank sections and comparing notes. Any chance to get them reading and writing...

Someone gave me this book 14 years ago, and I just got around to reading it because there was nothing else on my bookshelf that I hadn't read. I'm glad I picked it up! The book deals with music and violence and family, and the prose itself is musical at times. There is one chapter devoted to a relatively minor character's death that is heartbreakingly beautiful. And no, not a "typical" Vietnam story at all. I, an avid Jane Austin fan, loved it.

A great book that sneaks up on you over time. The relatively slow beginning is a wonderful evocation of the rural south and of the healing power of music and nature. However, violence is not that easy to tame. As someone who grew up after the Vietnam War (born 1969), I've often wondered why so many veterans ended up training in some form of martial arts. This book goes a long way towards explaining that need. The violence from the war bleeds through the lives of the vets in this novel as both a liberating and a destructive force; they can't shake it and they aren't sure if they really want to.

Laidlaw and Redmon were raised together in the Tennessee hills on the horse farm owned by Laidlaw's father; the black Redmon family living in one of the out-buildings and Redmon, Sr. working for Laidlaw, Sr. The boys are friends, a friendship complicated less by their different races than by young Redmon's perception that his father prefers Laidlaw to him. The boys, as boys will, grow to manhood, enter the army and are shipped to fight in Vietnam, where terrible things happen. They return, independent of each other, and spend much time alone-Laidlaw living in the Redmon's old home (Laidlaw's father died when the main house burned down) and Redmon in prison as the fall-guy in a real estate scam. Laidlaw had used his solitary year, surrounded by nothing more than a motley of farm animals, a stray dog, and a runaway peacock, to become proficient enough with a banjo that he can attract a following playing with a blue-grass band. Redmon seeks him out at a performance and the friendship is renewed.

In "Soldier's Joy", Madison Smartt Bell has much to say about tragedy, loss, solitude, betrayal, fathers and sons and the psychological devastation that can be wrought upon young men who have spent a year up to their elbows in gore. This is a book rich in both description and nuance. The Tennessee countryside is vivid and the musical imagery-and there is a lot of it-doesn't come across as forced or cloying but instead reads like a soundtrack. The writing is so fine, so "writerly" that it is easy to overlook the fact that the plot is almost an afterthought and is full of holes. This is not to say that Mr. Bell can't tell a story-he can. There are several scenes of firefights that are gripping and exciting and rank with the best of the breed. However, the basic plot (introduced well into the novel) about the Klan being somehow offended by the interracial friendship of Laidlaw and Redmon and by the interracial following of a local evangelist and trying to end both by violence, is thin. There are also two characters-Laidlaw's musician girlfriend and the ex-Green Beret leader of the Klan-who deserved better development. These are quibbles. "Soldier's Joy" is post-Vietnam fiction that is well worth reading.

This is a wonderful book, the kind that you start to read slower when you get close to the end because you don't want to say goodbye to the characters.

the story itself is engaging and interesting, but the subtly crafted dialog, revealing so much about the characters so naturally is what astonished me.

This is a book that celebrates the extraordinary in ordinary people, and made me feel better about humanity (be warned, I don't think you'd call it a 'feel good' book though!).

I loved this book, and will be seeking out more by the author.

I've turned to this thin book far too many times to count. It was also a life-saver when I was learning General Relativity because of its clear and careful exposition. Schrodinger was doing this back when nobody was quite sure what the deal was with, e.g., index notation, and he took pains to lay out the benefits -- but also the limits -- of that system. See, for example, his discussion of the derivative operator, something that is almost always glossed over.

I'm in the middle of my dissertation now, and every now and then I hit on a subtlety in GR that my advisor has missed but I caught from reading this book.

Don't get thinking that this is Schrodinger's book on the unified field. It is more like the lecture notes of a very intelligent man figuring out what on Earth this truly new version of gravity is all about.

In the end of course this book is too slim to live on its own as a GR text. You will need to carry around a bigger, more comprehensive tome to get through your studies. As a handguide and emergency sense-maker, however, it has few equals.

This book presents the results of Schroedinger's work in Ireland in which he explored the manifold of possibilities for unified field theories along the general lines pursued by Einstein. The main accomplishment was in constructing such a theory from just the connection, with metric derived as a consequence, using no ad hoc assumptions. I extended this work in my 1977 Master's thesis. While this kind of theory has gone out of style, it is still an exciting pursuit and Schroedinger's writing is clear and compelling.

I am an advanced undergraduate physics student who has started to go through Space-Time Structure. It seems to be a very good book, but the section introducing tensors was not as lucid as it could be. If you already know tensors or have a good book like Shaum's Outline of Tensor Calculus, then it can be a very useful introduction to the affine viewpoint of relativity that Schrodinger promotes. The discussion of nonsymmetric unified field theories is introductory and it would be necessary to look up the references it cites to get a more in depth understanding of them.

I'm twelve right about now, and I have my own theory of time.Time (the fourth dimension) is arranged on separate lines, like thefirst dimension. The fifth dimension is arranged in time planes and the sixth in time cubes. The fourth dimension, however, is simpler than those. Imagine infinite lines in space, each stacked one on another. These we will call "time lines". From these infinite lines spread more infinite lines. We'll call these "destiny lines". Then there are more and more destiny lines branching from those destiny lines, and so on and so forth. They get very complicated. Time lines are the original paths of time. Destiny lines are the lines of time determined by what happens along the time lines. Sounds confusing? Well, anything you do creates a new destiny line. As I write this, I am creating a new destiny line. The future may be different if I didn't write this at all. Time planes are the collection of one timeline and all destiny lines spreading from it. Time cubes are the colletion of all time planes. It's kinda weird ;)

This book is written specifically for anyone who desires to be an effective seminar leader and marketer for that business. The author gives excellent information, as well as very useful forms and tools for showing up as the professional you desire to be. I recommend this book for anyone who is either starting out, or who would like to move to the next level in their business. One of the most valuable things I found was the assurance that I had the kind of answers I need when approaching a corporation to do seminar work for them.

Speaking As A Professional: Enhance Your Therapy Or Coaching Practice Through Presentations, Workshops, And Seminars isn't just another public speaker's guide: it addresses those involved on a professional level and tells how to enhance a therapy or coaching practice by giving presentations, workshops and seminars. Chapters specific to this purpose offer author/therapist/business coach Dan Grandstaff's practical tips on how to expand a coaching or therapy practice through public speaking. From locating groups which use speakers to presenting onesself as an expert, this will make an important guide for a wide range of professions who would turn expertise into a side-business.

Speaking as a Professional is a very helpful how-to book filled with practical advice, relevant worksheets, and well-explained examples that offer even the most seasoned speakers valuable ideas for enhancing their therapy or coaching practices. As a business writing coach, I appreciate the guide's clear, organized, and easy-to-read format, as well as the solid content itself. While all the chapters are helpful, I especially like the one on "Delivering an Effective Presentation," where Dan Grandstaff's tips will definitely help me take my presentations to the next level.

This book is thorough, practical, and inspirational. Although all the chapters were helpful, I found Chapter Seven to be particularly so. The tips for managing anxiety helped me to sail through a recent presentation at a professional writers' conference. In fact, I enjoyed giving the presentation so much that I signed up for an upcoming workshop on "Getting on the Lecture Circuit." Thanks to Dan's book, I now have more confidence on the floor and on my feet.

Other books about professional speaking can put you to sleep with generic information that you already know. Either the author is trying to be politically correct or he or she is just trying to fill several hundred pages to justify the writing of the publication. Fred Gleeck's book is different. Just like the toughest coach you might have, Gleeck's doesn't mince words and he gets right to the point. He also realizes that he may offend some people with his comments. But don't you want a coach that won't sugarcoat anything yet instead will truly tell you like it is? In the book, Gleeck tells you exactly what to do and what not to do. Precisely where to invest your time, effort and money and where not to. I don't think there is a wasted word or a bit of fluff in any of his 239 pages. After reading the book, I immediately gave it to my wife to read to help me plan a strategy for my speaking business and ordered copies for my professional speaking friends so that they could do the same. I also thank those who had previously written comments about this book to convince me to make the investment. This information is so powerful, Gleeck could have forced you to spend $399 on a CD or DVD set, instead he made the same content available for a mere $19.95.

As a professional speaker, you have to understand how to make money. The other books I've read on this topic give you some good tips, but this is the best one I've read on how to MAKE MORE MONEY as a speaker. I highly reccomend it. I benefited a lot from Fred's extensive experience with CareerTrack and his knowledge of the public seminar business. His insights on how to develop your own products are amazing. Without reading this book I'm sure I would have been a speaker, but not a RICH speaker.

This book contains lots of practical and easy to implement advice and information on:
- getting started in your career as a speaker
- marketing a speaker's business
- the mechanics of speaking
- doing your own seminars
- creating and marketing information products, and
- other useful tips.

This book is an essential resource for professional speakers. Buy now and discover its secrets for yourself. The advice really works.

For those who also do seminars, you must also buy Marketing and Promoting Your Own Seminars by the same author.

Mr.Gleek knows his stuff. This book is broken down into bite size pieces. Open to any page and get at least one good idea. This book is also a perfect example of how to use a self-published book as a combination business card, promotional tool, and catalog. The only reason I didn't give the book a 5, is that much of the content is repeated in Mr. Gleeks other book; MARKETING & PROMOTING YOUR OWN SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS.I don't mean the same ideas, I mean whole sections, word-for-word. If I had not bought both books, I would have been totally satisfied with this one.

This box set gives you everything you need to know about Thay, Rashemen, and that area. If your considering this set take the chance it is well worth the money. There is actualy some power behind the wizards in this set, unlike many of the older sets(high levels). It is the best box set since Menzo!

At first I was reluctant to buy this box set. I didn't know much about Thay, Aglarond, or Rashemen from the Forgotten Realms Campaign Box so I decided to give it a try. My players loved it! The adventures were excellent and they gained almost 4 levels each! They became rich and had a good time doing it. The book even includes how to make a Red Wizard, Rashemar Witch, or a Rashemar Berserker for yourself. A must have for the Forgotten Realms.

When first I bought this expansion I bought it only for the two adventures (GREAT!!). After I read the campaign guide I couldn't believe what I found. I have found a source of information so interesting. Since then I only play in that region in the Forgotten Realms, and my players and I enjoy it even now after more than a year. I even made my own adventure through the campaign guide. Filled with the evil political planing of the Red Wizards the tough Rashmar and the mysterious Symbol of Aglarond. This one is for keeps!!

By far one of the best Forgotten Realms campaign expansions written. It tells in about Thay, Aglarond, and Rashemen, three of the most mysterious realms in Forgotten Realms. For 25 clams it is a good deal coming with a 128 page book on the featured realms, two maps of the area, a map of the capital of Thay, reference cards, a great 12 page monsterous compendium, and two complete adventures set in the Unapproachable east. One of the better buys in the Forgotten Realms line.

I never thought I'd be interested in reading a family history. But this book is much more. When Mr. Hopkins discovered that the state was going to build a highway through Greasy Creek and his family cemetery without even bothering to identify the graves they were moving, he was incensed. He immediately began what became a six-year struggle with the state highway department to get the graves properly identified and moved with the respect they deserved. In the process, Hopkins discovered or re-discovered a rich family history going back before the Civil War. In this book he discusses, along with his family, the effect of the Civil War on his family and Appalachia. His writing is insightful and at times even poetic. He can spin a yarn with the best of them. Everybody in Appalachia should read this book.

Bruce Hopkins has sensitively and intelligently presented an issue not often broached in effective terms by so many other scholars - that of the "rape" of the Appalachian mountains for their mineral and timber resources by outsiders and the effect those industries have had on the native inhabitants. However, Bruce has chosen to approach it from a very different point-of-view. Rather than pen another unread socio-economic treatise designed to gain another insignificant author a master's or doctoral degree or another chronicle of the moral decay of the inhabitants (a la Harry Caudill) or another condemnation along ecological lines, Bruce has chosen to approach the topic through an area overlooked by every other author whom has deigned to write about this backwater of our nation. He has chosen to approach the topic through the heritage and history of the residents, particularly those of his own family who settled, farmed, and moved away from Greasey Creek in Pike County, Kentucky.

By presenting the story of his own research into his family members buried in a cemetery slated for ignominious removal and relocation to make way for a new highway, (through a series of epiphanies) Bruce reveals the importance of his family's history - in effect, demonstrating that all Americans possess a personal heritage which is so often and so easily selfishly dismissed for personal convenience or profit. Bruce's Hopkins clan has a history as interesting as that of any blue-blooded family from Massachusetts, Virginia, or Georgia, and he demonstrates why each of us should make the attempt to preserve our own personal histories for our children, so that they may learn to appreciate their own places in history, and to learn pride in their ancestry and heritage, which aspects are so often subsumed in the name of "diversity".

My only criticisms of the book concern two general and one specific areas: the first over which Bruce apparently had little control and the second a suggestion to make it easier to understand the complicated relationships between the family members Bruce knows so well. First, there were a number of editorial errors which Bruce has promised to correct to perfect the book. These did not appreciably affect the reading of the work, and the whole is perhaps the most erudite work to come out of the region. Second, a family tree or a listing of the family members in an appendix may make it easier for the reader to understand which ancestor Bruce is discussing. Finally, while Bruce did a magnificent job discussing the Civil War and its effects on his family, some details regarding the loyalties of the local men were not rendered clearly, though in most cases they were. This last criticism is a personal complaint as the author of this review has done a great deal of research in this particular era and area. Bruce's understanding of the historical situation is, essentially, correct and the importance or accuracy of his family's history would not be affected by any such corrections.

Bruce's discussion of his personal crusade to save the remains of his ancestors from oblivion should prove to be a wake-up call for all Americans, especially those who would trade their heritage for selfish reasons. The landmarks which are so easily overlooked these days will only be missed when they are gone. We are not worthy of our ancestors if we would be so willing to forget their courage, sacrifice, and importance to the establishment of our nation.

Spirits in the Field by Bruce Hopkins is an interesting text. It is invaluable as a genealogical text for Hopkins family history buffs, and useful as a tool for understanding Pike County, and thereby all Eastern Kentucky, regional history.

Particularly apt are Mr. Hopkins' observations about the effect of the Civil War on the region. He does a terrific job explaining, in a non-polemical manner, the devastating effect the war had on ordinary people of Pike. Some of his prose is haunting. Particularly memorable is his turn of phrase "and all the geese were gone," showing the absolute change in atmosphere and character of the mountains before, during, and after the War. It's profound to imagine the proud geese of Pike, strutting around proudly before the war, immune to outside danger, fearless and strong, being slowly decimated - pilfered, roasted and digested - during the war, and utterly absent at its close.

Nevertheless, the book is flawed. Mr. Hopkins writes as if his reader should already be fluent in Hopkins family history. Names are flung around casually, without any connection to the personalities of their owners. While it's clear that Mr. Hopkins cares deeply about these faceless, characterless names, it remains unclear why his readers should. The superfluous introduction of characters and names throughout the text makes many sections nearly unreadable. The full of effect of a major character's story is often trumped by the interference of a dozen background figures, more names and dates than actual people. To an extent, this is nearly unavoidable in a genealogical text; the historical record renders many once living, breathing human beings as mere names and dates. But the problem could have been prevented, or at least controlled, by omitting many figures, fleshing out others with a little creative license, or at the very least, providing some genealogical charts in an appendix. Pictures might also have helped the reader identify major characters.

On a personal level, I could have done without the ghost story. While in one sense, it was clearly the motivation for the book, for me it was also cumbersome. I found myself wanting to skip through the interruptions of Mr. Hopkins' personal life and get back to the meat of the text. I wanted to see, feel, know Elijah; I didn't want to read about Mr. Hopkins' desire to do the same.

Additionally, there was something about Hopkins' prose I found objectionable in these sections. While generally quite smooth and natural during sections about the main characters of the novel, in the sections about Mr. Hopkins himself, the prose became labored and forced. What would be described quite naturally as "fear of strangers" if a character like Elijah suffered it, became xenophobia when Mr. Hopkins himself experienced it.

However, these flaws do not drown out the usefulness of the book as a whole. Spirits in the Field gives us a glimpse into the world of Hopkins' ancestors - of the ancestors of the American people, really. And where Hopkins excels, in recording the gait of the speech of his ancestors, for instance, it's hard to imagine any writer doing a better job.

This book, Bruce Hopkins' first, is a pleasure to read. In fact, I read it in one day as I found it too irresistible to put down! A very enjoyable story of life in eastern Kentucky and - most importantly - Hopkins' desire to learn more about his past. Hopkins makes brilliant use of nighttime dreams and daytime visions to help bring his readers into the story. Highly recommended!

The Custer National Battlefield still holds a special aura in the history of the American lexicon. Even after 132 years since the battle, the tragedy that unfolded there on June 25, 1876 captures our imagination, and it begs more questions than answers. Perhaps that's as it should be. Stricken Field is a history of the Custer National Battlefield, and the efforts of so many people over the years to make this piece of ground a sacred, historical, and beautiful spot in our country. The book is very well detailed, thoughtfully and intelligently written to make the history of all the efforts required to make and keep the battlefield a pleasant spot to visit, reflect, and admire. I strongly urge any person interested in western history to read this book, as well as the book A Terrible Glory by James Donovan.

For someone who has yet to browse this book, think of it as a biography of a battlefield. But not just any battlefield, THE battlefield, which for those of us who are entranced with the study of the events of June 25-26, 1876, can only mean one place--the Little Bighorn. As with all of his Indian Wars books, Jerry Greene does a first-rate job in marshaling sources to give us a highly detailed and readable history of the battlefield. The level of detail extends right down to a discussion of even the flora and fauna found there. In only that regard, the book may suffer at times from the inclusion of details that may not be that terribly interesting but it is necessary for them to be provided so that we can have a complete a picture of the place as possible.

Just as his book on the Washita battle supplanted Stan Hoig's "best of the bunch" book on that battle, so too this book supercedes the late Don Rickey's 1960s era history of the Custer battlefield as the book to turn to for a recounting of all that has happened at that southeast Montana field of engagement. This statement in no way denigrates Don Rickey whose book preceded much of the change that has visited the battlefield in recent years. Mr. Greene builds on the excellent foundation Mr. Rickey placed. In recounting the events of the 1980s(battlefield archaeology), the 1990s (the name change from Custer battlefield to Little Bighorn, the placement of the first markers for the places where Indian warriors fell) and this decade (the 2003 dedication of the Indian Memorial on Last Stand Hill), Greene helps us realize that this and, to a lesser degree, all battlefields are "living" places that evolve over time and reflect our nation in each of those decades, just as the battle itself tells us much about America in 1876.

In addition to gaining much insight into the past of the Little Bighorn, there are a number of areas of this book that are highly entertaining. I especially enjoyed reading about an old soldier named White who superintended the battlefield cemetery in the early 20th century. Imagine having him show you around, for he had first visited Little Bighorn as a young trooper with the Second Cavalry, serving under Alfred Terry, just a few days after the battle itself, and thus saw this stricken field as none of us ever can and conveyed his impressions to visitors.

"I think the government can do no less than to give these remains decent burial, by putting them in coffins, and remove them to some suitable place....It is hard for me to understand how the remains of the officers could be in condition for removal....while those of privates and non-commissioned officers had become food for wolves....I want to secure the body of my son."
Samuel E. Staples' letter to Congressman William W. Rice (Rep-Mass.)
November 9, 1877

The pain and suffering from Mr. Staple's words leap out at you and hit you directly in the face. His son was Corporal Samuel F. Staples who died with Company I along battle ridge. These words from a father who lost his son at the Battle of the Little Bighorn would have a direct effect on the establishment of the Custer Battlefield as a national cemetery. One man can make a difference.

The story of Staple's father is just one of many new finds discussed in Jerome Greene's Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876. The history of Custer Battlefield can be more fascinating than the battle itself:

* What to do with the remains of Custer, his officers, and his soldiers
* Should the grounds be designated a national cemetery
* Should the grounds be groomed or left to nature to maintain
* Should the extra soldier markers be removed
* Should the Indian warriors be memorialized
* How should the National Park Service (NPS) interpret the battle
* Custer buffs and their battles against the NPS created fireworks over the many decades; what were their outcomes
* Should there be an Indian Memorial

These are some of the questions answered. Every student fascinated with this place must understand its past to better understand it today, and to help protect it forever. Jerome Greene masters all of this in his magnum opus.

Stricken Field evolved from Mr. Greene's official 2005 report to the NPS at the request of former Superintendent Neil Mangum, current Superintendent Darrell Cook, and Chief Historian John Doerner. A study such as this was desperately needed. The only other history was written by past Chief Historian Don Rickey, Jr but it covered only the first 80 years. It was time to make it current.

Mr. Greene opens with an overview of the Custer Battle. The purpose of this book is not to rehash the battle in detail and Greene sticks to that purpose; his narrative on what happened to Custer and the 7th Cavalry is short and to the point. There is too much ground to cover after June 25-26, 1876, and Mr. Greene accomplishes that with depth and clarity.

Mr. Greene takes a complex subject (just keeping track of all the name changes at Custer Battlefield is difficult enough in itself) and helps us to more easily understand those complexities. Here you will discover the different government agencies that were responsible for the battlefield, how they saw their role in managing the place, the actions they implemented to accomplish their mission, and the people involved.

The different monuments and burials are covered: what happened to the Custer dead and the difficulties that followed in administering the national cemetery; how and why the remains from Ft. Phil Kearny were reinterred on Last Stand Hill and what happened to them afterwards; the placement of the 7th Cavalry Monument; the repositioning of the Ft. C.F. Smith monument and the Reno Monument; and the soldier and warrior markers. What about the visitor center and the Stone House as well as the other structures on the battlefield? The answers are shared in vast detail by Mr. Greene.

For me, one of the most fascinating segments of Stricken Field is the chapter regarding interpretation. During the War Department's administration, its primary focus was the many reinterments from the various western forts and maintaining the national cemetery. Interpretation was not their mission. That was furnished by Crow tribal members who accompanied visitors. Interpretation did not really begin until management of the battlefield was transferred from the War Department to the NPS in 1940. Reading how research and interpretation flourished at the battlefield is inspiring. All of us can be thankful for the vision that the first NPS superintendent Edward Luce and second NPS park historian Don Rickey, Jr. dreamed up in this endeavor. Their work still has an impact on the battlefield with the placement of red granite markers for fallen warriors.

Mr. Greene does not shy away from the many contentious battles waged against the NPS by the Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association (CBHMA), and Little Big Horn Associates (LBHA) respectively. Few battles benefited the battlefield as in the case against the partnership between NPS and North Shield Ventures; however, once we see all these clashes laid out before us, we realize even more so how most of them were fought more for personal needs rather than enhancement of the battlefield. Many of the younger generation interested in this battle are not even aware that the CBHMA was once a cooperating association with the NPS and managed the visitor center bookstore. Mr. Greene clearly covers the many successes the CBHMA achieved when cooperating with the NPS, as well as its downfall from it.

What is completely absorbing is another discovery by Mr. Greene in a letter written by Walter Camp to General Godfrey on November 6, 1920. In this very lengthy, never-before-published letter, Camp offers in-depth complaints about incorrect placement of soldier markers and the reinterment of the Ft. Phil Kearny dead on Last Stand Hill. These very same arguments can be heard at the battlefield or made against the NPS today.

Mr. Greene concludes the book with a chapter about the Indian Memorial and the battles fought by American Indian groups and individuals to honor their fallen warriors. Because of Mr. Greene's extensive research, we wholly comprehend the failures of the War Department and NPS in not listening to the needs of these Americans. But we also appreciate the achievements of the Indian Memorial and warrior markers that eventually took place because the NPS finally listened. Those successes began from bold initiatives set by the first American Indian superintendents, Barbara Booher and Gerard Baker. Their efforts began the building blocks of trust between the NPS and the Indian community. Immediately afterwards and during Superintendent Neil Mangum's administration, he harbored that trust and did not take it lightly; the consequence was dramatic change to the face of the battlefield for the better and forever. Mr. Greene documents Mr. Mangum's fight to finally have the Indian Memorial constructed. It is during the Indian Memorial dedication at the battlefield on June 25, 2003 that Mr. Greene ends this story.

Stricken Field leaves one breathless for its complete annals of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and its transformation from a small national cemetery without an official name to a magnificent Monument where all Americans now feel welcomed. What changes will we witness at Little Bighorn over the next 50 years? Who can say, but I envy the next generation that will experience that change.

Please visit the Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield website to see some of the photos from Stricken Field and read an extensive interview with Jerome Greene where he discusses his new book, his career as a historian, and the Little Bighorn Battlefield today. Select "Site Map" at the bottom of every page to easily find these specific pages.

This is an excellent update to many other published books about the Lettle Big Horn Battle Field. The author spends a lot of time dicussing the many problems that friendly organizations. Many of these organizations have had their differences with management of the battle field but most I believe had the interest of the history in heart. It's amazing to me that after so many years the argument of who did what to whom continues. Now the park wants to do ever more harm to it's self with more expansion. The author discusses this in detail. This is a must have book for anyone who loves the history to this wonderful historical place.

Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876 by Jerome Greene is, for aficionados of the battle, a must own, must read. As a student of the battle, Gen. G. A. Custer and other major characters of the era, and the Native Americans they fought, the addition of the history and background of the battlefield and subsequent national monument is information one must have. I will admit the some of the minutia included became tedious after a while, but most of what is included is important.

The politics behind the formation of the national cemetery in partnership with the battlefield is also interesting to read. I also found quite interesting the point of view of the Crow residents of the area in thwarting the expansion of the battlefield proper; an aspect I never thought about before.

Greene spends little time with the battle itself. Almost anyone who would be interested in Stricken Field knows more about the battle than Greene included. What is of paramount value is the detail provided dealing with the history of the area including the geological information. I also found interesting the information provided about each of the superintendents and thought the inclusion of their photographs in the appendix was a nice touch. Certainly the information included about Edward S. Luce who headed up the facility between 1941 and 1956 was interesting. I never knew, for example, that Luce served in the 7th Cavalry in the early part of the twentieth century. That explains much about his commitment to the area. As a reader of the Notes section, the information provided there is most interesting and in some cases more interesting than the information in the chapter they relate to. Example, Notes for Chapter 2, #15, pp 267-268, and #21, pp 268-269. If these won't grab you, nothing will.

Jerome Greene is even handed and extremely fair in discussing the major groups that have an interest in the battlefield. I thought his treatment of the installation of the Indian Memorial to be both informative and evenhanded. Chapter Ten, in some ways, is the most important in the book.

Stricken Field is not a book that will be read by the masses. But for anyone who has been bitten by the events surrounding June 25, 1876, Stricken Field will provide a treasure trove of information that is interesting and important.

Peace always