An account of the Santiago, Cuba, land campaign of the Spanish-American War based on firsthand information gathered from handwritten diaries, memoirs, and regimental and company histories of the men who participated in the campaign.
The Die Is Cast
The Invasion of Cuba and the Battle of Las Guasimas
The Battles of San Juan Heights
Private George Von Kromer's Story
The Daiquiri Landing and the Battle of El Caney
Private Edward L. Henry's Story
Battle Day--July 2, 1898
The Siege of Santiago
The Waiting and the Dying
The Long Voyage Home
Epilogue
Appendix: Fifth Army Corps
Index
A. B. FEUER is a military historian and freelance newspaper and magazine journalist. The author of Bilibid Diary: The Secret Notebooks of Commander Thomas Hayes, Combat Diary: Episodes from the History of the Twenty-Second Regiment, 1866-1905 (Praeger, 1991), and General Chennault's Secret Weapon: The B-24 in China (Praeger, 1992) and the editor of Coast Watching in the Solomon Islands: The Bougainville Reports (Praeger, 1992), he has also published articles in numerous journals, including Military History Magazine, Sea Classics, Civil War Quarterly and World War II. He is a book reviewer for Military Review and Military History.
"This is vintage A.B. Feuer. Once again he transports his readers
back to one of America's foreign wars. This time it's the shortest.
The carefully selected words from the diaries and memoirs of
soldiers who experienced it first-hand are his conveyances. Thanks
to Feuer, we are better able to appreciate the fighting war from
the perspective of the lowly, eleven-dollars-a-month privates in
particular. Theirs involved enemies and self-imposed obstacles more
formidable than usually believed, as well as an ending even more
shameful. Some interesting surprises are in store for students of
this not-so-splendid war. Not surprisingly, warfare's Siamese
twins, Heroism and Folly, saw service in the Santiago Campaign of
1898."-Barry Machado Professor of History Washington and Lee
University
.,."Feuer skillfully combines a scholarly overview of the war with
firsthand accounts by participants from both sides. The latter are
particularly useful in transporting the reader from his present-day
vantage point to the combatants' time, so that he can see the war
through their eyes."-Military History
?...Feuer skillfully combines a scholarly overview of the war with
firsthand accounts by participants from both sides. The latter are
particularly useful in transporting the reader from his present-day
vantage point to the combatants' time, so that he can see the war
through their eyes.?-Military History
?In The Santiago Campaign of 1898: A Soldier's View of the
Spanish-American War, A.B. Feurer has collected soldiers' letter
and re-created that campaign from the vantage point of the men who
fought in it. He has thus rescued the Spanish American War from the
myth perpetrated by the yellow press and politicans anious to
convice fellow citizens that the Untied States Was indeed a major
nation boasting a powerful military.?-Latin American Rearch
Review
..."Feuer skillfully combines a scholarly overview of the war with
firsthand accounts by participants from both sides. The latter are
particularly useful in transporting the reader from his present-day
vantage point to the combatants' time, so that he can see the war
through their eyes."-Military History
"In The Santiago Campaign of 1898: A Soldier's View of the
Spanish-American War, A.B. Feurer has collected soldiers' letter
and re-created that campaign from the vantage point of the men who
fought in it. He has thus rescued the Spanish American War from the
myth perpetrated by the yellow press and politicans anious to
convice fellow citizens that the Untied States Was indeed a major
nation boasting a powerful military."-Latin American Rearch Review
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