Research Catalog

Title

The Chaco War 1932-1935 : fighting in the green hell / Antonio Luis Sapienza and José Luis Martínez Peláez.

Author

Sapienza Fracchia, Antonio Luis, 1960-

Publication

Warwick : Helion & Company Limited, [2020]

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Additional Authors

Martínez Peláez, José Luis, 1955-

Description

64 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 30 cm.

Summary

"Two very different military concepts faced each other: the German General Hans Kundt, a First World War veteran, hired by the Bolivian Government, was a proponent of the typical Prussian tactics of front attacks regardless of cost, but also of the strategy of taking and controlling as much territory as possible without annihilating the enemy.The Paraguayan Lieutenant-Colonel José Felix Estigarribia (later promoted to Colonel, and then General), took his specialization courses in Chile and France, and was a proponent of tactics of using trench warfare for defense, and flanking the enemy when in the offensive.Eventually, Estigarribia's ideas proved their worth - partially because his forces managed to capture huge stocks of Bolivian arms and ammunition throughout the war."

Series Statement

Latin America @ war ; No. 20

Uniform Title

Latin America @ war ; no. 20.

Subject

• 1932-1935
• Chaco War, 1932-1935

Note

• Cover title.

Call Number

JFG 21-53

ISBN

• 9781913118730
• 1913118738

OCLC

1112262355

Author

Sapienza Fracchia, Antonio Luis, 1960- author.

Title

The Chaco War 1932-1935 : fighting in the green hell / Antonio Luis Sapienza and José Luis Martínez Peláez.

Publisher

Warwick : Helion & Company Limited, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Latin America @ war ; No. 20

Latin America @ war ; no. 20.

Chronological Term

1932-1935

Added Author

Martínez Peláez, José Luis, 1955- author.

Research Call Number

JFG 21-53