How Long to Read The Little War Of Private Post: An Artist-Soldier’s Memoir Of The Spanish-American War

How Long Does it Take to Read The Little War Of Private Post: An Artist-Soldier’s Memoir Of The Spanish-American War?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 10 minutes to read The Little War Of Private Post: An Artist-Soldier’s Memoir Of The Spanish-American War by Charles Johnson Post

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

THE LITTLE WAR OF PRIVATE POST is a stirring, funny, brave, sympathetic piece of Americana—the memoir of a foot soldier in the Spanish-American War who happened also to be a first-rate artist, carrying a sketchbook along with his gun. It is a GI’s view of the invasion of Cuba in June 1898, from the moment that Charles Johnson Post passed the jumping test, the coughing test and the eyesight test and became a soldier to the day he returned to New York, gaunt and fever-ridden—the first man back from San Juan Hill. In April, Private Post was among the raw recruits assembled at Camp Black on Hempstead Plains, Long Island. He is eloquent about the soldier’s diet of coffee, hardtack, and sowbelly, “rancid and translucent in decay”; about the practice drills in close order formation, “much as in the days of Waterloo or Gettysburg”; about his fellow soldiers, their clothing, daily life, and esprit de corps. Post has such a good-humored, straight view of his own and others’ experiences that throughout the book all that is dismal, painful, malarial, hot, deathly and serious becomes touching, brave and ludicrous—though never losing dignity. The writer’s pen and the artist’s brush re-create for us the invasion of Cuba, one of the most brilliant campaigns of our entire military history—despite fantastic blunders before, during and after it. Rubber ponchos peeled; woolen uniforms were ridiculous in the Cuban heat; horses were so scarce that the Rough Riders had nothing to ride; and after Santiago had capitulated, General Shafter waited and waited while his troops died of disease, far removed from medical care. THE LITTLE WAR OF PRIVATE POST is the chronicle of individual men on a wide canvas. Many of them died, and death gives to the little routines of their lives an epic significance. This was an “old-fashioned” war, but in it we find much that is illuminating today—particularly so because it is on a small, personal scale.

How long is The Little War Of Private Post: An Artist-Soldier’s Memoir Of The Spanish-American War?

The Little War Of Private Post: An Artist-Soldier’s Memoir Of The Spanish-American War by Charles Johnson Post is 250 pages long, and a total of 62,500 words.

This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Little War Of Private Post: An Artist-Soldier’s Memoir Of The Spanish-American War Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 41 minutes to read The Little War Of Private Post: An Artist-Soldier’s Memoir Of The Spanish-American War aloud.

What Reading Level is The Little War Of Private Post: An Artist-Soldier’s Memoir Of The Spanish-American War?

The Little War Of Private Post: An Artist-Soldier’s Memoir Of The Spanish-American War is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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