A Sinister Splendor -

Mike Blakely

Forge Books

2019

432 páginas

14h 24m

ISBN-10: 0765328380

It’s 1845. Texas joins the union, and Mexico threatens war over the disputed Texas border. Meanwhile, expansionists dream of an America that sprawls all the way to the Pacific Coast. Can a conflict with an already war-torn Mexico satisfy this lust for territory?

The Mexican-American War becomes the heroic proving ground for future Civil War generals and presidents of the United States, Mexico, and the Confederacy. Among the cast of characters are: President James K. Polk; General Zachary Taylor; a young Ulysses S. Grant; Army laundress turned frontier legend Sarah Bowman; the infamous Mexican warlord, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna; and the hundreds of mistreated immigrant soldiers who formed a Mexican battalion of U.S. deserters. But the glories of victory are tempered by the horrors of war—lives lost, bodies battered, souls shattered, dreams crushed, whole cities razed, and innocence forever dashed.