"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.

This book analyzes and evaluates the struggles between the Union and the Confederacy on the river lines during the Civil War. The bloody engagements on the river lines were the most important battles of the Civil War in the East, far surpassing even the dramatic contests at Antietam and Gettysburg in significance.

A revisionist view of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, which were kept separate under US command rather than being integrated with the British and French forces. Argues that the decision by President Wilson and General Pershing resulted in costly delays, stormy relations, and impediments to the war effort. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR