On the night of February 15, 1898, the U.S. battleshipSplendid. . . . An excellent general history of the Spanish-American War. . . . Lively reading, with an anecdotal narrative full of day-by-day action and personality sketches.[A] highly readable history . . . of this popular 'splendid little war' and its international repercussions.I greatly enjoyed O'Toole is . . . astonishingly good. . . . [He] is a master of the knack of weaving significant detail into his recapitulation of the war. Alden Whitman,