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Panama, 1923. The United States, which has ridden the crest of victories in the Spanish-American War and World War I to become a new world power, has conquered tropical diseases and the jungle to fulfill the five hundred year dream of constructing a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. But in its opportunistic rise to world prominence, it has alienated friends and offended other countries.
Smarting over some of the ways America has used is new clout, Colombia and Japan commence secret negotiations to punish the United States for what they see as its callous treatment of them. As they implement their plans for revenge, U. S. Army Major Dwight Eisenhower faces a dark personal challenge and becomes executive officer to Fox Conner, commander of the U. S. 20th Infantry Brigade in Panama.
Meanwhile, Theodore Roosevelt returns to Panama to hunt one of the wildest places in the world, the impenetrable Darien jungle, and to see his greatest achievement, the Panama Canal, completed. Plans are quickly changed however, and Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Conner, and many other Americans find their lives turned upside down when they are called upon to defend one of America’s greatest triumphs, the Panama Canal.
Smarting over some of the ways America has used is new clout, Colombia and Japan commence secret negotiations to punish the United States for what they see as its callous treatment of them. As they implement their plans for revenge, U. S. Army Major Dwight Eisenhower faces a dark personal challenge and becomes executive officer to Fox Conner, commander of the U. S. 20th Infantry Brigade in Panama.
Meanwhile, Theodore Roosevelt returns to Panama to hunt one of the wildest places in the world, the impenetrable Darien jungle, and to see his greatest achievement, the Panama Canal, completed. Plans are quickly changed however, and Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Conner, and many other Americans find their lives turned upside down when they are called upon to defend one of America’s greatest triumphs, the Panama Canal.
273 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 22, 2013
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