Kronologikus hadtörténet 3 – Újkor 1900-ig – Könyvek

O'TOOLE : The Spanish War (fülszöveg)

 

On the night of February 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine was ripped in half by an explosion in Havana harbor with the loss of 266 American lives, a tragedy that led inexorably to war with Spain nine weeks later. After a three-month fight on two fronts half a world apart, America found herself possessed of an empire stretching from the Caribbean to the far Pacific. Gone forever was the era of peaceful and prosperous isolation as the nation formed alliances and spheres of influence that would shape her destiny for decades to come.

Here is the color and drama of this turning point in American history. Through the wide-angle lens of his exhaustive research, G.J.A. O'Toole projects a sweeping panorama of peace and war, the epic human story of America crossing the threshold of the twentieth century. Marching across his pages are Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Clara Barton, and Stephen Crane, sometimes unexpectedly joined by Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm, Winston Churchill, and William Randolph Hearst.

In this splendid narrative history, the author unearths a previously unknown U.S. covert intelligence network in Cuba during the war, and presents startling new evidence on the mysterious mission of the Maine that will shed new light on this misunderstood "splendid little war."

 

Katalógus O'Toole Tartalom
KATALÓGUS TARTALOM

 


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