Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
I truly prefer non-fiction to fiction and one of my favourite non-fiction books is Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. It’s a truly breathtaking book that portrays the mistreatment of the American Indians from 1860 to 1890 and recounts many of the key events and figures as the Native Americans battled for survival. The book has been made into a film and will be screened on HBO but the filmmakers simply couldn’t resist messing about with the narrative by introducing their own character to carry the plot - a part-native, part-Ivy League graduate, according to the New York Times. For me, the actual events and the people behind them are fascinating - no fiction is needed. The Battle of Little Big Horn remains one of the greatest tales of the American West.
