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Title: The Little War of Private Post: The Spanish-American War Seen Up Close by Charles Johnson Post, Graham A. Cosmas, Marylou K. Gjernes, Mary L. Gjernes ISBN: 0-8032-8757-7 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic personal account of the Spanish American War
Comment: A classic story of one man's experiences during the short, but brutal war in Cuba. Private Post details his everyday struggles to keep his health, his sanity and his life intact. Amazing information on small details of what life was like in the army at the time. The heat, bad food, military blunders, inept commanders, cunning Spanish foes, the wounded, sickness and victories are explained in Mr. Post's basic and direct style. A must read for any fan of this conflict that allows the reader to suffer along with the soldiers wearing wool tunics and armed with weapons that were outdated. A classic. Check it out.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding Work of a Soldier's Campaign in Cuba
Comment: I first read this book in 1961 when it was published by Signet in a mass market edition when I was at university. I have found it so valuable that it is still in my collection.
As a long time "grunt" historian of the life and times of the common soldier I have had occasion to refer to this time and again for details of clothing and equipment. Post was an illustrator for a New York paper and went to war carrying his sketchbook as a member of a New York National Guard unit still equipped with Indian War vintage single shot "trapdoor" Springfield rifles firing black powder whose smoke revealed their firing positions to the Spaniards concealed with smokeless firing Mauser rifles.
A less grim story is that the box knapsacks carried by the troops were admirably suited to carry bottles of whiskey in the blanket rolls and demijohns in the compartments along with a pair of spare socks and some toiletries.
Seldom was an amphibious campaign more mismanaged or carried out but this is not the place for that discussion.
This war was the last gasp of that primitive nineteenth century organization dominated by the technical bureaus and in which the Commanding General of the Army commanded only his own personal retainers in peace time. The main result of this war was the establishment of a proper general staff for planning and training on the European model.
The commentator, Graham A. Cosmas, is a long time specialist in the history of the Indian fighting army.
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Title: Spanish-American War : The Story and Photographs by Donald M. Goldstein, J. Michael Wenger, Robert J. Cressman, Katherine V. Dillon ISBN: 1574883038 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Splendid Little War by Frank Freidel, Mark Clodfelter ISBN: 1580800939 Publisher: Burford Books Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt, EDMUND MORRIS, Richard Bak ISBN: 0375754768 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 12 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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