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Notorious for its military dictatorships, South America is less well known for its wars. The heyday of South American war-mongering was the 19th century, and it is this period that Andrew Graham-Yooll reconstructs in this history of "small wars

A celebration of Argentina that chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the 20's and 30's through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives - a hard-drinking, womanising, emigre Scotsman, who cut his way through the bars and brothels of the city whilst trading with farmers upcountry.

¿Cómo pudo la sociedad argentina vivir en compañía del miedo como si fuera algo normal? Durante la terrorífica década de los setenta, Andrew Graham-Yooll trabajó como redactor en el Buenos Aires Herald. A su alrededor, amigos y conocidos iban desapareciendo, secuestrados o asesinados por guerrilleros o bandas paramilitares. Aunque el menor traspié podía resultar en su propia muerte, Graham-Yooll continuó recabando información sobre esa carnice...

Notorious for its recent military dictatorships, South America is less well known for its wars. But since the dawn of independence in the early nineteenth century, the continent has witnessed a series of conflicts, some short and small-scale, others long-lasting and extensive. Many such conflicts amounted to little more than sabre-rattling and cost little human life. But not all hostilities were small or trivial. More than 400, 000 troops and ...