Philip Jowett

Liberty or Death (eBook, ePUB)

Latin American Conflicts, 1900-70

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A highly illustrated study of the wars of Central and South America from 1900 through to 1970, featuring many rare and never-before-seen images.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472833532
• Artikelnr.: 68403339

Autorenporträt

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, and since then he has published numerous other titles for Osprey including MAA 414, The Russo-Japanese War 1904-05, MAA 532, Japan's Asian Allies 1941-45 and NVG 19, Armour in China 1920-1950. He lives in North Lincolnshire, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Maps
Chapter 1: Twenty Years of Conflict: 1900-20
Chapter 2: "Land or Liberty": The Mexican Revolution 1911-14
Chapter 3: Mexico in Turmoil 1915-29
Chapter 4: Conflicts of the 1920s
Chapter 5: Revolutions in Brazil: 1922-28
Chapter 6: "Colossus in the North": US Military Interventions in Latin
America, 1901-34
Chapter 7:"I Drink to Victory!": The Chaco War 1932-35
Chapter 8: Conflicts of the 1930s
Chapter 9: War in the Amazon: 1932-41
Chapter 10: The 1940s
Chapter 11: The 1950s: Decade of Revolution
Chapter 12: The 1960s
Bibliography
Index