Cuba in War Time ... Illustrated by Frederic Remington.

Publisher Marketing: Title: Cuba in War Time ... Illustrated by Frederic Remington. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this collection provide cultural, statistical, commercial, chronological and geo-economic histories of Central and South America. This series also includes texts, reports, letters, and illustrated and interpretive histories of indigenous peoples, and the natural and built environments that have fascinated historians for centuries. Along with written records, the collection features transcribed oral histories and traditions spanning the range of cultures and civilisations in the southern hemisphere. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Davis, Richard; Remington, Frederic; 1897 8 . 9772.de.13. Contributor Bio:  Davis, Richard Richard Davis formerly Professor of History at the University of Tasmania, has published widely on 1848 and other Irish topics. Contributor Bio:  Remington, Frederic About The Author Frederick Schiller Faust (1892 -1944) was a celebrated western author and bestselling writer in the decades following the legendary writers Owen Wister and Zane Grey. His books were thoughtful and literary, and he used several pen names including Max Brand, George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. Faust was born in Seattle but his parents died when he was a child and he was raised in California. He worked as a cowhand on a ranch in the San Joaquin Valley and studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Canadian Army in 1915 at the outbreak of World War I but his service was short lived and he moved to New York City. Faust married Dorothy Schillig in 1917, and had three children. He settled down to write mainly for magazines. In 1921, he suffered a severe heart attack, and for the rest of his life suffered from chronic heart disease. Many of his stories inspired films. He created the Western character Destry, featured in several cinematic versions of Destry Rides Again, and his character Dr. Kildare was adapted to motion pictures, radio, television, and comic books. He worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter and made a fortune from MGM's Dr. Kildare adaptations. During World War II, he was a front line war correspondent, moving with American soldiers in Italy in 1944, Faust was hit by shrapnel and was personally commended for bravery by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Additional books by the same author available through Amazon and published by Pearl Necklace Books include: Alcatraz (1922) This is both a western romance and a story about trust between men and their animals. In this case, the animal is a race horse named Alcatraz which has escaped his master. Unfortunately, a ranch owner believes Alcatraz to be wild and wants him killed. Red Jim Perris is hired to capture and kill Alcatraz, but nothing is as straightforward as it first seems in this riveting book. The Rangeland Avenger Fighting, gunplay and mystery abound in this classic western. What starts as a slow read turns into a thriller with a unique twist midway though the book