MR. POLK'S ARMY; THE AMERICAN MILITARY EXPERIENCE IN THE MEXICAN WAR. Texas A & M University Press Military History Series #51. [Mister Polk's Army.]

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Published by College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1997., 1997

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Series: Book 17 of 101 - Williams-Ford Texas A&M Uni6versity Military History

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Likely History Book Club edition. xvi, 284 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, slender surface scratch at front panel's upper left. Blue boards lightly bumped at spine ends. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Publisher's summary: "Drawing on numerous diaries, journals, and reminiscences, Richard Bruce Winders presents the daily life of soldiers at war; links the army to the society that produced it; shares his impressions of the soldiers he 'met' along the way; and concludes that American participants in the Mexican War shared a common experience, no matter their rank or place of service. Taking a 'new' military history approach, Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War examines the cultural, social, and political aspects of the regular and volunteer forces that made up the army of 1846-48, presents the organizational framework of the army, and introduces the different styles of leadership exhibited by Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott. With Preface, Acknowledgements, nineteenth b/w illustrations, six tables, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Features ten chapters titled as "Jacksonians at War," "The American Military Establishment," "Mr. Polk's Generals," "The Regulars," "The Volunteers," "Tools of the Trade," "Life in Mr. Polk's Army," "Dog Cheap to the Living," "The Land of the Montezumas," "Mr. Polk's Army" plus "Epilogue: A Pyrrhic Victory." ISBN 0890967547.…

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MR. POLK'S ARMY; THE AMERICAN MILITARY EXPERIENCE IN THE MEXICAN WAR. Texas A & M University Press Military History Series #51. [Mister Polk's Army.]
Author
Winders, Richard Bruce. [James K. Polk, 1795-1849.]
Publisher
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
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1997
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Book 17 of 101: Williams-Ford Texas A&M Uni6versity Military History
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