Abstract

How Wars Are Made

The article presents information about the book "The Martial Spirit: A Study of Our War With Spain," by Walter Millis. Mr. Millis in his account of the Spanish-American War has written a mature, intelligent, and exciting work, a rare occurrence in historical writing. He has avoided those pitfalls that beset the unwary in their search for historical truth, for he has succumbed neither to partisanship on the one side nor to "objectivity" on the other. What people have in "The Martial Spirit," as a result, is a complete history of the American people at war. The main body of "The Martial Spirit" is concerned with the tale of but four years, from the breaking out of the second insurrection in Cuba in 1895 to the ratification of the Peace of Paris by the U.S. Senate in 1899.