[Mobile library] My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue Hybvw4AkP 3oCDiAG00 HNjo38OAN E1QcujTP3 CG5Wv2z0j ZgHufR2qm x6opCDFit bYzuPRVWT nzTsbtchu A4DrzziPw My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue rvVeVqVb0 BY-88968 VrK2HMHG7 US/Data/History QiUhtsM3X 4.5/5 From 807 Reviews qqpvQF0JJ Samuel Chamberlain Fs7skrcGY DOC | *audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF | ePub RYboWTn1s Sez6mAJW8 ujcb14Toy 06P68Mzl2 Fq6WbTIec ni31KgAk7 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Good book.By Michael K. GTEMI4lME LawsonI bought this book because it was supposedly the inspiration for Cormack McCarthy's "Blood Meridian." The style of writing is archaic, but once you get 8mmlBtjT1 used to it, it is a fascinating story. Book has a lot of neat illustrations. Thourghly qRfpOULlI enjoyed it.2 of 5 people found the following review helpful. My Confessions: 5Joty1wwG Recollections of a RogueBy Charlotte BakerA great gift for McCarthy fans. It is trzuxkonj almost a coffee table book. I was amazed at the quality and content of this book. rtkrAoLNg Quick delivery. I gave this to my no.1 son for Christmas. He loved it. Great zOZZj6yXc companion book for Blood Meridian.13 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Tall TalesBy William BozicFor those interested the Mexican War, this is a "must read" book and has been used by historians as a primary source for years, but his crude paintings are also a treat for the scholar, because Camberlain captures many scenes which have escaped photographers and those who made lithographs, including the massacre of Mexican civilians by Arkansas troops in a cave in Northern Mexico.Sam Camberlain was a 16 year old private from Boston who served in the elite 1st US Dragoons in Mexico and gives vivid descriptions with crude but animated paintings of Saltillo, Monterrey, and Northern Mexico. Although he was not at the savage fighting during the capture of Monterrey, he claims to have been there so the reader is left to wonder about his other claims and the accuracy of his paintings of the combat in which he lied about being involved. Perhaps he had contact with those who were actually there?Sam Chamberlain was in the Mexican War and painted some interesting small glimpses of life death. Reading his book is almost like listening to a veteran who seems to have been everywhere and done everything (especially with women). Sam Chamberlain relates deaths of soldiers to Mexican guerrillas and duty in the occupation but more often than not, Sam Chamberlain proclaims preposterous pick-ups with a host of women. The reader almost senses the author is bragging to fellow high schoolers in a locker room or to anyone who will listen in a bar, hence the title of the book is fitting "My Confessions: Recollections of a Rogue". This book would probably be disregarded as pure fantasy if it were not or the fact that sometimes he does detail military and daily life senarios which are proved by others.Truth or Tall Tale? Read this book and you be the judge. Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession is a classic, ribald tale of nineteenth- century life. Perhaps the best written account of a soldier's adventures and misadventures in the Mexican War and its aftermath, this unexpurgated edition is now available for the first time, complete with over 150 of Chamberlain's wonderful textual illustrations reproduced in full color. If you enjoyed the Chamberlain paintings assembled in Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War:The San Jacinto Museum of History Paintings, you will be fascinated by the tale in My Confession that goes with it and beyond it into Chamberlain's adventures with the scalp-hunting Glanton Gang (the story that Cormac McCarthy used as the basis for his celebrated novel Blood Meridian).My Confession is the story of Samuel Chamberlain, a Boston boy who hoped to be a theological student but could not control his amorous and pugilistic inclinations and so left for the West. According to his "Confession," he seduced countless women in the U.S. and Mexico, never missed a fandango, fought gallantly against Mexican guerrillas, and rode with the First Dragoons into the Battle of Buena Vista. His remarkable story is pure melodrama, but Goetzmann has proven by his painstaking research that much of it is true.The editor's annotations are a valuable contribution to an account that virtually every historian of the Mexican War has used..