About this Book

"This book, though highly entertaining. is more than a rollicking adventure story; the insights it provides have been contributions to history."—John Eisenhower. "This is a lively and rare piece of Americana, one of those great finds that lend so much to the re-creation of our exciting and colorful past."—San Francisco Chronicle. Chamberlain "stands forth as one of the most valuable as he is surely the most lively of chroniclers of [the war with Mexico]."—Paul Horgan, New York Times. "The real interest of the work is . . . in the light it sheds upon the highly informal relations among the different elements of the United States forces in Mexico and between those forces and the Mexican population—relations which were a strange mixture of cruelty and kindness."—New York Herald Tribune.