A Yankee Guerrillero, Frederick Funston and the Cuban Insurrection, 1896-1897

Clean blue cloth boards w/ silver lettering to spine have square, sharp corners. Unclipped, photo DJ is lightly soiled w/ sm tears/chipping/creasing along edges and fold-overs and two, clean horizontal tears at center of spine. Text block is square and tight w/ bright, clean, unmarked pgs throughout w/ lightly dusted/soiled pg ends. Reprint of original 1932 ed, 1/2 title, portis, 165 pps, b/w illus's and maps, biblio, index. A well researched and detailed account of Gen Funston's career as a guerrilla officer from his furtive transit to Cuba, to his major battles, to his narrow escape from insurrecto and Spanish forces before his return to the U.S. Before Kansas gave the country Ike, it gave the country Funston.