The Spanish-American War at Sea: Naval Action in the Atlantic

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By piecing together diaries, letters, scrapbooks and rare privately-printed memoirs, the author has created a story which tells how America's ragtag navy - composed mainly of converted yachts, steamers and tugboats - was able to fight and win against the more powerful Spanish gunboats. The naval battles were fought in places like Santiago, Cardenas, Cienfuegos, Manzanillo, Port Nipe, Guantanamo, San Juan, Guanica and Ponce. The stories of the brave little ships that fought these battles (with names like the Gloucester and the Yosemite), at times against overwhelming odds, demonstrates the excellent training of the men who manned their guns under leadership of daring officers. This book fills in many of the missing pieces in the history of the Spanish-American War.

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.,."[a] highly readable account of the U.S. Navy's action against Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War of 1898. An ample supply of maps and rarely seen photographs supplement the text. There are also numerous eyewitness accounts from popular magazines and newspapers of the period...it has its place as a popular historical introduction to a complicated war. General, undergraduate."-Choice
...[a] highly readable account of the U.S. Navy's action against Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War of 1898. An ample supply of maps and rarely seen photographs supplement the text. There are also numerous eyewitness accounts from popular magazines and newspapers of the period...it has its place as a popular historical introduction to a complicated war. General, undergraduate.-Choice
Using diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and rare privately printed memoirs, Feuer has pieced together an engrossing account of the U.S. Navy's war with Spain at the end of the last century. There is more here than the traditional look at the Maine disaster and the great rout at Santiago. Names less familiar, like Manzanillo, Guanica, and Ponce, come to life, to present a unique view of the Atlantic component of the Spanish-American war.-Naval History
..."a highly readable account of the U.S. Navy's action against Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War of 1898. An ample supply of maps and rarely seen photographs supplement the text. There are also numerous eyewitness accounts from popular magazines and newspapers of the period...it has its place as a popular historical introduction to a complicated war. General, undergraduate."-Choice
..."[a] highly readable account of the U.S. Navy's action against Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War of 1898. An ample supply of maps and rarely seen photographs supplement the text. There are also numerous eyewitness accounts from popular magazines and newspapers of the period...it has its place as a popular historical introduction to a complicated war. General, undergraduate."-Choice
"Using diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and rare privately printed memoirs, Feuer has pieced together an engrossing account of the U.S. Navy's war with Spain at the end of the last century. There is more here than the traditional look at the Maine disaster and the great rout at Santiago. Names less familiar, like Manzanillo, Guanica, and Ponce, come to life, to present a unique view of the Atlantic component of the Spanish-American war."-Naval History

Author Bio

A. B. FEUER is a military historian and freelance newspaper and magazine journalist. He is the author of Bilibid Diary: The Secret Notebooks of Commander Thomas Hayes, Combat Diary: Episodes from the History of the Twenty-second Regiment, 1866-1905 (Praeger, 1991), General Chennault's Secret Weapon: The B-24 in China (Praeger, 1992), Coast Watching in the Solomon Islands: The Bougainville Reports (Praeger, 1992), and The Santiago Campaign of 1898: A Soldier's View of the Spanish-American War (Praeger, 1993). He has also published articles in numerous journals, including Military History Magazine, Sea Classics, Civil War Quarterly, and World War II and is a book reviewer for Military Review, Military History, and World War II.