Villa: Soldier of the Mexican Revolution (Military Profiles)

by RobertL.Scheina (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $20.09

  Pancho Villa rose out of banditry to become a dynamic strategist who mastered the tactical use of a diverse array of weapons and equipment, including modern railway and cavalry, to contest control of Mexico. The peasantry idolised him because he often shared with them the largesse of his raids on the wealthy haciendas. He lived as he died - violently, the victim of an assassination squad in 1923. This book analyses this complex man and provides a solid overview of Mexico's political history against the fabric of social revolution. This is a new volume in the popular Military Profiles series. It analyses the raucous career of the Mexican Revolution's central figure and provides a fascinating glimpse into Mexican political and cultural history, and a contentious period in U.S.-Mexican relations.