Gone For Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War
Ballantine, 5/2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. In March 1847, the U.S. Navy delivers eight thousand soldiers on the beaches of Vera Cruz. They are led by the army's commanding general, Winfield Scott, a heroic veteran of the War of 1812, short tempered, vain, and nostalgic for the glories of his.....