01972cam a2200433 i 4500 405687943 TxAuBib 20191210120000.0 190211s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019005295 9781432865443 1432865447 (OCoLC)1085621565 TxAuBib rda Blakely, Mike,. A sinister splendor : a Mexican war novel / Mike Blakely. Sinister splendor. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019. ℗2019. 733 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print Westerns Thorndike Press large print Western series It's 1845. Texas joins the union and Mexico threatens war over the disputed Texas border. Meanwhile, expansionists dream of an America that sprawls all the way to the Pacific Coast. Can a conflict with an already war-torn Mexico satisfy this lust for territory? The Mexican-American War becomes the heroic proving ground for future Civil War generals and presidents of the United States, Mexico, and the Confederacy. But the glories of victory are tempered by the horrors of war--lives lost, bodies battered, souls shattered, dreams crushed, whole cities razed, and innocence forever dashed. 20191210. Mexican War, 1846-1848 Fiction. Large type books. Mexican-American Border Region Fiction. Mexico Fiction. Texas Fiction. War fiction. Western fiction. Historical fiction. Thorndike Press large print Westerns. Thorndike Press large print Western series.