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The Mexican War, 1846-1848 (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Mexican War, 1846-1848 (Paperback, New Ed)
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"Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this ...is the
best military history of that conflict...Leading personalities,
civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and
fair evaluations. The coming of war is seen as unavoidable, given
American expansion and Mexican resistance to loss of territory,
compounded by the fact that neither side understood the other. The
events that led to war are described with reference to military
strengths and weaknesses, and every military campaign and
engagement is explained in clear detail and illustrated with good
maps...Problems of large numbers of untrained volunteers,
discipline and desertion, logistics, diseases and sanitation,
relations with Mexican civilians in occupied territory, and Mexican
guerrilla operations are all explained, as are the negotiations
which led to war's end and the Mexican cession...This is an
outstanding contribution to military history and a model of writing
which will be admired and emulated." (Journal of American History).
K. Jack Bauer was also the author of Zachary Taylor: Soldier,
Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (1985) and Other Works.
Robert W. Johannsen, who introduces this Bison Books edition of The
Mexican War, is a professor of history at the University of
Illinois, Urbana, and the author of To the Halls of Montezumas: The
Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).
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