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[2023]
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes a dramatic coming of age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine--a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic"--
2) Cuba libre
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Bank robber Ben Tyler agrees to participate in a scheme to run guns into Cuba on the eve of the Spanish-American war in 1898, and once there meets and falls in love with Amelia Brown, the mistress of a wealthy American planter who has enough money to keep Ben and Amelia in style for a long time, if only they can figure out how to get it.
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English
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"The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas toward the unknown." Writing at a time when war could still...
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The first definitive account of this legendary fighting force and its extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Lee Gardners Rough Riders is narrative nonfiction at its most invigorating and compulsively readable. Its dramatic unfolding of a familiar, yet not-fully-known story will remind readers of James Swansons Manhunt. Two months after the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in February 1898, Congress authorized President McKinley...
Author
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Henry Holt and Comapny
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Recalls the forgotten political debate at the beginning of the twentieth century over America's role in the world, with the country's political and intellectual leaders advocating either imperial expansion or restraint.
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