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blue squares posted:I’m reading Battle Cry of Freedom about the US Civil War and it’s pretty great. Never knew southerners were trying to invade Cuba, and successfully took over Nicaragua (!) for a short time. Wild! Learning about the filibuster campaigns in college was one of the big "wow, there's till a lot of history to learn" moments for me when I was in college. It's a bit of a minefield of a subject though. Much like the Civil War, you get a lot of authors that are oddly sympathetic to the slavers. I remember reading a Cato Institute article celebrating William Walker back in the late oughts. I'd be interested in an account of those campaigns from a non-American perspective. Tycoon's War seemed to relish Walker as a character too much for my liking. Ed Harris did star in a hilarious movie about him (filmed during the Contra War). The whole thing is basically a practical joke with obvious and intentional anachronisms and nods to contemporary politics, but Harris actually portrays Walker pretty well. I remember there being a scene where Reagan sends in a helicopter to bring Walker back to the states right in the middle of a 19th Century battlefield like the end of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Need to watch it again. https://youtu.be/Nn45GsPoZrc
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