The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa : a True Story of Revolution and Revenge

Eileen Welsome

Little, Brown and Company, 2006 - History - 403 pages

"For eleven months, the Americans sank deeper and deeper into Mexico. As they descended south, Pershing, Patton, and the American troops were followed by spies and picked off by snipers, scorched in the deserts, frozen in the mountains, and confounded by conflicting rumors about their wily prey. Some would be tested as never before. Some would see things they had never dreamed of. Some would never return home alive." "The expedition would bring the United States and Mexico to the brink of war, but it would also restore greatness to prey and predator. The General and the Jaguar is more than a classic account of the war for control of the West: it is a chronicle of obsession and revenge, and a dual portrait of Pershing and Pancho Villa, two of the greatest military minds of all time."--BOOK JACKET.

About the author

Eileen Welsome won the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, the Selden Ring Award, & a dozen other major journalism awards in 1994 for breaking the story of America's secret medical experiments in the Cold War in "The Plutonium Files." A former John S. Knight Fellow, she lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa : a True Story of Revolution and Revenge
• Author: Eileen Welsome
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2006
• ISBN: 0316715999, 9780316715997
• Length: 403 pages
• Subjects: History / Latin America / Mexico; History / Military / United States; History / United States / 20th Century