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Our Book Recommendations

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The Spanish American War Centennial Website is periodically asked about recommendations for various publications concerning the war. We do have some favorites for basic readers on the war. These recommendations are listed below. As a service to our readers, if you click on one of the titles (in red) you will be taken to that book on Amazon.com  Many of these are out of print but can still be purchased through Amazon.com Please Visit our Home Page to learn more about the Spanish American War

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[This book has many great illustrations, photos, and tidbits on the war. Great book for just picking up and reading a bit here and there. Its text is not a comprehensive history of the war, however]

[A good book on the sinking of the battleship MAINE, and is suportive of the coal bunker fire theory. Well written. It also provides a good account of the war itself]

[A good source for information on uniforms of the Spanish American War era ]

Jeffers, H. Paul, Colonel Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt Goes to War, 1897-1898. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996).

[A good readable book on Roosevelt in the war]

McCullough, David, Mornings on Horseback. (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1981).

[This excellently written work is a great book to read before or after Roosevelt's The Rough Riders. The book helps readers understand the man, and what made him into what he was].

Nofi, Albert A., The Spanish-American War, 1898. (Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, 1996).

[This is a very good, readable basic history of the war]

[This book is a must for anyone on the war. Not only does the reader get a very readable first-hand account, they get insight into the mind of a man who became one of the heroes of the war and a leader of the nation]

[Another good book on the sinking of the battleship MAINE, and is supportive of the mine theory]