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by K. Jack Bauer (Author), Robert Walter Johannsen (Introduction by)
Explains about the Mexican war. This title describes 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, as well as the negotiations which led to war's end and the Mexican cession.
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This story tells of the Mexican war, and shows a fair side to both the Mexicans and the Americans. This is an outstanding contribution to military history and model of writing which will be admired and emulated.
Author Biography
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).
