THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR Author:FRANK FREIDEL THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR was the term used by a high government official to characterize the Spanish-American conflict of 1898. Little, the war certainly was: it lasted barely four months. Splendid? perhaps for those at home reading the blazing headlines. But for the men who fought in it all during that hot and terrible summer it was bloody, dir... more »ty adn heroic a war as any in history.« less