| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895–1898. By John Lawrence Tone. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 338 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8078-3006-2.)
John Lawrence Tone begins this excellent study by chiding military historians for slighting guerrilla wars, and he has set the bar so high in this work as to present a formidable challenge to succeeding scholars. Wonderfully informative and balanced, the book was researched in Washington, Madrid, Havana, and elsewhere, and it effectively debunks the mythology of both sides in the Cuban struggle.	1
Tone quickly demolishes the Cuban myth that the war of 1895–1898 was a mass uprising against Spanish rule by a united Cuban people. A small minority actively rebelled; rarely did the Cuban general Máximo Gómez have more than 5,000 troops at his disposal. Although the Cuban Liberation Army (CLA) rolls numbered 40,000 at war's end, a flood of recruits joined only after April 1898, when victory was assured. Meanwhile, about 60,000 Cubans served Spain as volunteers and auxiliaries, while many Cubans distrusted the CLA's largely black troops and feared anarchy if it won.	. . .

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