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President Wilson and General Pershing's initial insistence on an independent American force, rather than an integration with existing French and British armies, resulted in costly delays and bitter victories in the decisive Allied counter-offensive against Ludendorff and the Central Powers. Using a tactic uncommon in previous studies of the AEF, David Trask views the campaign of 1918 through the eyes of the highest-ranking of field commanders, including Pershing, Marshal Ferdinand Foch of the Allied and Associated Powers, and General Erich Ludendorff of the Central Powers. Trask's portrayal of Pershing reveals a self-righteous leader who was unwilling to correct initial misconceptions that marred the doctrine and training of the AEF. 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Brief and decisive, not too costly, the Spanish-American War made the United States a world power. David F. Trask's \"War with Spain in 1898\" is a cogent political and military history of that \"splendid little war.\" It describes the failure of diplomacy; the state of preparedness of both sides; the battles, including those of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders; the enlargement of conflict to rout the Spanish from Puerto Rico and the Philippines; and the misconceptions surrounding the war. Chief historian at the U.S. Army Center for Military History, David F. 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