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(0)John Lawrence Tone
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From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule. Though often overshadowed by the "Splendid Little War" of the Americans in 1898, according to John Tone, the longer Spanish-Cuban conflict was in fact more remarkable, foreshadowing the wars of decolonization in the twentieth century.Employing newly released evidence--including hospital records, intercepted Cuban letters, battle diaries from both sides, and Spanish...
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John Tone recounts the dramatic story of how, between 1808 and 1814, Spanish peasants created and sustained the world's first guerrilla insurgency movement, thereby playing a major role in Napoleon's defeat in the Peninsula War. Focusing on the army of Francisco Mina, Tone offers new insights into the origins, motives, and successes of these first guerrilla forces by interpreting the conflict from the long-ignored perspective of the guerrillas themselves....
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Entre 1895 y 1898 se desarrolló el primer acto de la guerra de Cuba: el ejército español enfrentado a los insurgentes cubanos. Esta época, sin embargo, suele quedar eclipsada en la historiografía por la entrada de Estados Unidos en la guerra, y la derrota final de España.
John Lawrence Tone, analiza estos tres años cruciales empleando nuevas fuentes documentales, archivos hospitalarios, cartas interceptadas y diarios de batalla de los dos...
