Brazil:

Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality: Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916, by Todd A. Diacon, pub. Duke University Press, USA 1991, a little known rural revolt in Brazil.

Dictatorship and Armed Struggle in Brazil, by Joáo Quartim, pub. Monthly Review Press, New York 1971, a good text on the guerrilla wars of the 1960's first published by New Left Books.

Central America and the West Indies:

Lawless Liberators: Political Banditry and Cuban Independence, by Rosalie Schwartz, pub. Duke University Press, USA 1989, a different view on the so-called Cuban Patriots and how respectable separatists forged an alliance with outlaws to overturn Spanish rule.

The Trochas, by Michael Blow, pub. The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Vol.10, No.4, Summer 1998, pp.46-51, details the use of barbed wire barriers used by the Spanish Commanders in Cuba to try to contain rebels, for every 12 yards of wooden stakes there were 450 yards of wire, En Guerra con Estados Unidos; Cuba 1898, by Antonio Carrasco García, pub. Almena Edición, Madrid 1998, over half of the book are for the sections on illustrations and appendices, both sections make this a must for me.

Pictorial History of Our War With Spain for Cuba's Freedom, by Trumbull White, pub. Freedom Publishing Co. USA 1898, published just after the war it contains details of the early landings by the U.S. Marines at Guantanamo which in later books (1899) on the War appear to condense or leave out, it also covers Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii although not in great detail.

How The Battleship Maine Was Destroyed, by H. G. Rickover, pub. Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, Washington D.C., 1976, nice line drawings and photographs assist the text, a good reference book. Special Issue 1898, pub.

Agrupacion Miniaturistas Militares de España, September 1998, some helpful data included, Black Jack in Cuba; General John J. Pershing's Service in the Spanish-American War, by Kevin Hymel, pub. Army History, Summer 1998, Washington D.C., also in this issue Buffalo Soldiers at San Juan Hill, by Frank N. Schubert, both are helpful articles.

Edwin O. Loucks described the last days of the Spanish-American War in Cuba, submitted by Frederick Hatch, pub. Military History, August 1998, pp.16,18,30&31, good contemporary account.

Maryland's National Guard in the Spanish-American War, by Merle T. Cole, pub. Journal of the Company of Military Historian, Vol.50. No.4, pp.146-158. The Cuban Insurrection 1952-1959, by Ramón L. Bonachea and Marta San Martín, pub. Transaction Books, New Jersey 1974, insights into the M-26-7 and Directorio Revolucionario movements, their conflicts, military strategies, rural and urban organizations, a handy reference book.

History of an Aggression; The Trial of the Playa Giron Mercenaries, (Bay of Pigs) pub. Ediciones Venceremos, Havana 1964, English edition, a very interesting work, sometimes you have to read between the lines.

The Brink: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, by David Detzer, pub. Thomas Y. Crowell, New York 1979, The Missile Crisis, by Elie Abel, pub. Bantam Books, New York 1968, 1st pub. 1966, both of interest although the latter is better for me.

Grenada: Revolution and Invasion, by A. Payne, P. Sutton and T. Thorndike, pub. Croom Helm, London 1984, a good overview of this period, more of a political book than military, The International Crisis in the Caribbean, by Anthony Payne, pub. Croom Helm, London 1984, like the previous title, fiscal and politics, but these are the causes of war.

Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People, 1492-1971, by Robert Debs Heinl and Nancy Gordon Heinl, pub. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston 1978, a good account of the islands history, although over half is on the 20th century, the author was commander of the U.S. Naval Mission to Haiti until being expelled by the Duvalier regime.

A Presence for Peace: American and Coalition forces in Haiti, by SFC Douglas Ide, pub. Soldiers, November 1994, pp.13-17, Haiti Lessons Learned, 6 articles appear under this heading in Military Review, July-August 1997, pp.12-61, some are better than others.

Germany in Central America: Competitive Imperialism, 1821-1929, by Thomas Schoonover, pub. University of Alabama Press, 1998, a most useful work on how the various German States and then United Germany created an area of influence in this region.

Under the Eagle: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean, by Jenny Pearce, pub. Latin American Bureau, London 1982, 1st pub. 1981, some interesting data.

Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America, by Walter LaFeber, pub. W. W. Norton & Co., New York 1984, a better work that the previous title.

Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, by S. Schlesinger and S. Kinzer, pub. Anchor Books, New York 1984, 1st pub. 1982, covers the period 1954-1966, good reference book.

Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, by P. Dale Scott and J. Marshall, pub. University of California Press, 1991, not really into this topic but it is all history.

Book List

Book List: Introduction
Book List: Pre-Columbian & Conquest, Colonial Period
Book List: Mexico / Texas
Book List: Brazil, Central America and the West Indies
Book List: South America
Book List: The Paraguayan War