Volume 46, Number 5 · March 18, 1999
The Four-Sided War
By Theodore H. Draper
The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography
by Louis A. Pérez Jr.
University of North Carolina Press, 171 pp., $16.95 (paper)
If ever a war was misnamed, it was the Spanish-American War. The name implies that only Spain and the United States fought in the war of 1898. It suggests that Spain was the only loser and the United States the only victor. Nothing could be further from the truth. Spain, which had long counted Cuba and the Philippines in its empire, was easily defeated, but the United States did not win the war by itself and fought most of the war against an antagonist that was not Spain.
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