Reviews for The Spanish-American War

The average rating for The Spanish-American War based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-01-27 00:00:00 Chris Kohl It was informative. I learned a lot of what took place in the war at that time. It had good detail but not so much that it was boring. I think the war was actually started by the "yellow journalists" of the day.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-11-07 00:00:00 Philippe Lavallee This book to an interesting approach to the aquisition of Texas and New Mexico into the United States, opting to look at it from a Mexican perspective than from the traditional US perspective. Generally, I thought that the points the book made were interesting and thought provoking - however I found it hard to read. Without a substantial background of the area I got lost in the names and stories of people of whom I had never heard and although the chapters were well categorized in themes, I had a hard time following the over-arching point of each section. If you are truly interested in this area and time period and have had substantial learning in it previously, I definitely recommend this book. However, if not, then I suggest maybe picking something else up first.