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The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa, a True Story of Revolution and Revenge
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MILITARY HISTORY The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa, a True Story of Revolution and Revenge. By Eileen Welsome. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Pp. x, 406. Photographs. Maps. Index. $21.95 paper.
Eileen Welsome's flowing prose in her recounting of Pancho Villa's 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico and the U.S. response leaves little doubt why she earned a Pulitzer Prize for her 1993 investigative reports about the U.S. government's experimentation with plutonium on unsuspecting medical patients between 1945 and 1947 for The Albuquerque Tribune. This is the most engaging narrative of the events leading up to the Columbus incident and Pershing's Punitive ...
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