There are not many great Mexican War books but I came across one the other day and have to recommend it. David Clary is a distinguished writer of history and his book called "Eagle And Empire looks at the battle of the SouthWest between Mexico and the United States.
The most fascinating characters of this war are mentioned in the various skirmishes and guerrilla war that this war was that many figured it was as Mexican peasants had to deal with the brutalities of two armies. This was a brutal war that is often over-looked and has best been suppressed for improved relations between these two North American countries. The chapters of this oak are divided into months of this war and you get a great picture of events in order and how this war was fought on the battlefields to offices of senators. Life was difficult for the soldaderas on both sides and they often took their anger on the poor non-combatants of Mexico. Santa Anna was the loser general of Mexico but even he showed some brilliance at times escaping enough times to confuse and frustrate American forces and one could see a longer war had the spiriting been more into Mexico and it was not such a unequal place during this time period.
You can learn many things about the war of 1846 from reading Clary's book and I want to keep this short as I just ran across some cheerleader that got busted for screwing a 15 year boy and that is more of an interest than how we stole four crummy states away from Mexico.
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