On February 15, 1898, the Maine blew up in Havana harbor. The pride of the U.S. Navy, this modern battleship was technologically unsurpassed anywhere in the world. With the explosion, the efforts of the U.S. and President McKinley to engineer a peace in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain ended. Now comes the dramatic account of this disaster and its consequences. Photographs and maps.
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