The Chaco War 1932–35 (Men-at-Arms 474)

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Название: The Chaco War 1932–35 (Men-at-Arms 474)

Издательство: Osprey Publishing

Автор: Alejandro Quesada

ISBN: 978 1849084161

Год: 2011

Формат: pdf

Размер: 2,5 Mb

Кол-во страниц: 49

Язык: English

Often over-shadowed by contemporary events in China and Japan, the Chaco War (1932-1935) was a massive territorial war between Bolivia and Paraguay, which cost almost  100,000 lives. It was sparked by Bolivia's attempts to capture a stretch of the Paraguay River to gain access to the Atlantic. An old fashioned territorial dispute, the contested area was the Gran Chaco Boreal, a 100,000-square mile region of swamp, jungle and pampas with isolated fortified towns. The wilderness terrain made operations difficult and costly as the war see-sawed between the two sides. Bolivian troops, under the command of a German general, Hans von Kundt, had early successes, but these stalled in the face of a massive mobilization programme by the Paraguans which saw their force increase in size ten-fold to 60,000 men.