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Title: Definitive Single Volume History of the Spanish American War
Review: Musicant has a difficult problem in writing about a two ocean war that was fought by different schedules and hampered by spotty communications between combatants. However, by breaking down the events of the war into a roughly chronological sequence, Musciant is able to produce a narrative that allows readers to see the war at a strategic and tactical level. Naturally there are some overlaps of chronology as the Battle of Manila Bay was fought and won before things really got set up around Cuba and Puerto Rico but these things do not disrupt the overall quality of his richly detailed narrative. Definitely worth a place on the shelf of anyone interested in 19th Century American History.
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