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Liberty or Death
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Latin American Conflicts, 1900–70
JOWETT Philip: Liberty or Death. Latin American Conflicts, 1900–70
General Military
Englisch, 368 Seiten, zahlreiche s/w- und Farbabbildungen, 4 Farbkarten, Bibliographie, Register, gebunden mit Schutzumschlag
From the Banana Wars of the early 20th century through to the Football War of 1969, South and Central America has been a hotbed of revolutions, rebellions and conflicts as diverse as they are numerous. Some were small-scale affairs involving the poorly armed forces of Central American armies with rifles, machetes and a few aged machine guns. Others were full-scale conflicts involving sophisticated armies equipped with tanks, artillery and aircraft, and hundreds of thousands of troops. These wars often went largely unreported in the West, which was preoccupied with its own problems in fighting two world wars and dealing with Cold War tensions.
Fully illustrated with a wealth of rare photographs, this fascinating story sheds light on seven decades of a continent in conflict that is rarely covered in English.
Contents:
– Maps
– Twenty Years of Conflict: 1900-20
– „Land or Liberty”: The Mexican Revolution 1911-14
– Mexico in Turmoil 1915-29
– Conflicts of the 1920s
– Revolutions in Brazil: 1922-28
– „Colossus in the North”: US Military Interventions in Latin America, 1901-34
– „I Drink to Victory!”: The Chaco War 1932-35
– Conflicts of the 1930s
– War in the Amazon: 1932-41
– The 1940s
– The 1950s: Decade of Revolution
– The 1960s
Biographical Note:
Philip Jowett was born in Leeds in 1961, and has been interested in military history for as long as he can remember. His first Osprey book was the ground-breaking Men-at-Arms 306: Chinese Civil War Armies 1911-49; he has since published the three-part sequence The Italian Army 1940-45 (Men-at-Arms 340, 349 and 353). He is married and lives in Lincolnshire, UK.
