The American Claimant And Other Stories And Sketches

THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT is a lessknown but brilliantly satirical novel whichranks behind THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and PUDDINHEAD WILSON but isstill of m... » 

THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT is a lessknown but brilliantly satirical novel whichranks behind THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and PUDDINHEAD WILSON but isstill of major interest as anything by Mark Twain does. Among the MerryTales is a searing dissection of the follies and illusions of war A PrivateHistory of a Campaign That Failed. «