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Author : Frank Freidel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1580800939
Indeed it was splendid for the American public, but for the Rough Riders and other soldiers it was as grim, dirty, and bloody as any other war.
Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 0857052292
The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, went there to duff up the Reds. 'There's a splendid little war going on', a British staff officer told them. 'You'll like it'. Looked like fun. But the war was neither splendid nor little. It was big and it was brutal, a grim conflict of attrition, marked by incompetence and corruption. Before it ended, the squadron wished that both sides would lose. If that was a joke, nobody was laughing. 'A Splendid Little War' tests the pilots' gallows humour in a world of armoured trains and elegant barons, gruesome religious sects and anarchist guerillas, unreliable allies and pitiless enemies.
Author : Peter Huchthausen
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0142004650
From the evacuation of Saigon in 1975 to the end of the twentieth century, the United States committed its forces to more than a dozen military operations. Offering a fresh analysis of the Iranian hostage rescue attempt, the invasions of Granada and Panama, the first Gulf War, the missions in Somalia and Bosnia, and more, author and distinguished U.S. naval captain Peter Huchthausen presents a detailed history of each military engagement through eyewitness accounts, exhaustive research, and his unique insider perspective as an intelligence expert. This timely and riveting military history is “a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the nature of war today” (Stephen Trent Smith).
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
ISBN : OCLC:476592084
Author : C. Douglas Sterner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1687386870
The Spanish-American War (1898) was America's first major foreign war, and one of the most impactful wars in our nation's history. The combat action lasted only 115 days and fewer than 400 American Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines died in combat.As a result of the war the United States established itself as a world power, its Navy soundly destroying the once-vaunted Spanish Armada. As a direct result of the American victories, the United States gained temporary control of Cuba and the Philippine Islands, and expanded its possessions to include Puerto Rico and Guam, both of which remain American Territories to this day. "A Splendid Little War" recounts the chronology of events leading up to and during the fighting of the Spanish-American War. Perhaps no war in our history has been more popular at home or among those who fought it. American media played a significant role in instigating war, and fanning the patriotic fervor that made it so.In these pages you will meet the heroes of both sides and follow the chronology of battle through the actions of the aging Civil War heroes that commanded the American forces, and the young Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Army Nurses who were conspicuous by their gallantry and devotion to duty and to each other.
Author : Ivan Musicant
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0805035001
The definitive version of the Spanish-American War as well as a dramatic account of America's emergence as a global power.
Author : John Lawrence Tone
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807877302
From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule. Though often overshadowed by the "Splendid Little War" of the Americans in 1898, according to John Tone, the longer Spanish-Cuban conflict was in fact more remarkable, foreshadowing the wars of decolonization in the twentieth century. Employing newly released evidence--including hospital records, intercepted Cuban letters, battle diaries from both sides, and Spanish administrative records--Tone offers new answers to old questions concerning the war. He examines the origin of Spain's genocidal policy of "reconcentration"; the causes of Spain's military difficulties; the condition, effectiveness, and popularity of the Cuban insurgency; the necessity of American intervention; and Spain's supposed foreknowledge of defeat. The Spanish-Cuban-American war proved pivotal in the histories of all three countries involved. Tone's fresh analysis will provoke new discussions and debates among historians and human rights scholars as they reexamine the war in which the concentration camp was invented, Cuba was born, Spain lost its empire, and America gained an overseas empire.
Author : Matthew McCullough
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299300340
Recovers a forgotten history of how U.S. Christian leaders, in the era of Spanish-American War, began using Christian ideas to promote an American responsibility for extending freedom around the world--by force, if necessary.
Author : David F. Trask
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803294298
“Remember the Maine!” The war cry spread throughout the United States after the American battleship was blown up in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. Americans, already sympathetic with Cuba’s struggle for independence from Spain, demanded action. Brief and decisive, not too costly, the Spanish-American War made the United States a world power. David F. Trask’s War with Spain in 1898 is a cogent political and military history of that “splendid little war.” It describes the failure of diplomacy; the state of preparedness of both sides; the battles, including those of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders; the enlargement of conflict to rout the Spanish from Puerto Rico and the Philippines; and the misconceptions surrounding the war.
Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486141978
DIVBased on a pocket diary from the Spanish-American War, this tough-as-nails 1899 memoir abounds in patriotic valor and launched the future President into the American consciousness. /div
Author : Thomas E. Morrissey
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462832620
Patrick Donegan, the fictionalized protagonist of Donegan and the Splendid Little War, is a war-profiteer and pro-Cuban journalist during the Spanish-American War. He becomes involved with the great historical and literary figures of the period, including Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Winston Churchill, William Randolph Hearst, Ambrose Bierce, Richard Harding Davis, and Stephen Crane. Donegan inadvertently and unhappily participates in all the major events of the era, including the attack on San Juan and Kettle hills, the naval battle at Santiago harbor, and the assassination of President William McKinley.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0812487125
Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623654993
The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism "strangled in its cradle". So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, went there to duff up the Reds. "There's a splendid little war going on," a British staff officer told them. "You'll like it." Looked like fun. But the war was neither splendid nor little. It was big and it was brutal, a grim conflict of attrition, marked by incompetence and corruption. Before it ended, the squadron wished that both sides would lose. If that was a joke, nobody was laughing.
Author : Frank Burt Freidel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
ISBN : OCLC:1834018
Author : Stephen Kinzer
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627792172
The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond. How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat—until the cycle begins again. No matter how often we debate this question, none of what we say is original. Every argument is a pale shadow of the first and greatest debate, which erupted more than a century ago. Its themes resurface every time Americans argue whether to intervene in a foreign country. Revealing a piece of forgotten history, Stephen Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the twentieth century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate faraway lands. That prospect thrilled some Americans. It horrified others. Their debate gripped the nation. The country’s best-known political and intellectual leaders took sides. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Hearst pushed for imperial expansion; Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, and Andrew Carnegie preached restraint. Only once before—in the period when the United States was founded—have so many brilliant Americans so eloquently debated a question so fraught with meaning for all humanity. All Americans, regardless of political perspective, can take inspiration from the titans who faced off in this epic confrontation. Their words are amazingly current. Every argument over America’s role in the world grows from this one. It all starts here.