BOOK - THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR (BOX44)

 COURTESY OF GIBSONS TACTICAL TAVERN                                                                       MILITARY SURPLUS LISTING INDIVIDUALLY PICTURED

 THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR:  THE MAINE, SAN JUAN HILL, MANILA BAY, SANATIAGO,    THE ROUGH RIDERS---THE WHOLE BLOODY, VIOLENT STRUGGLE THEY CALLED " THE SPELDID LITTLE WAR" THE TRUE, DRAMATIC STORY OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

AUTHOR:  FRANK FREIDEL

PUBLISHED BY: DELL PUBLISHING CO., INC.  (710 THIRD AVENUE  NEW YORK, NY )

COPYRIGHT: 1958 BY FRANK FREIDEL

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FIRST DELL PRINTING--JULY 1962

   ***""THERE WER A FEW MEN IN ADVANCE, BUNCHED TOGETHER, AND CREEPING UP A STEEP, SUNNY HILL, THE TOPS OF WHICH ROARED AND FLASHED WITH FLAMES. THE MEN HELD THEIR GAME ACROSS THEIR BREASTS AND STEPPED HEAVILY AS THEY CLIMBED....THEY WALKED TO GREAT DEATH AT EVERY STEP, MANY OF THEM, AS THEY ADVANCED, SINKING SUDDENLY OR DISAPPEARING IN THE HIGH HIGH GRASS....." RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, ON THE IMMORTAL CHARGE OF SAN JUAN HILL BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S ROUGH RIDERS.

***TERMED "A SPENDID LITTLE WAR" BY UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR JOHN HAY IN WRITING TO COLONEL ROOSEVELT AFTER THE FALL OF SANTIAGO, IT WAS ANYTHING BUT THAT TO THE BLOOD-CAKED SOLDIERS AND BATTLE-GRIMED SAILORS WHO FOUGHT IT. NOW THEIR TRUE STORIES HAVE BEEN WOVEN INTO A THRILLING DOCUMENTARY BY FRANK FREIDEL, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT HARVARD . PROFESSOR FREIDEL IS THE AUTHOR OF A BIOGRAPHY OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, AS WELL AS OF "AMERICAN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY." HE IS THE EDITOR OF "THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN HISTORY."