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Paraguay at War

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TRAGEDY OF PARAGUAY. By PHELPSGILBERT. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975. Pp. 288. $16.95.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Leslie B. Rout Jr.*
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
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Copyright © 1979 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

1. Pelham H. Box, The Origins of the Paraguayan War, 2 vols. (Urbana, 1927). An aging work, but still the most comprehensive on the topic in English. See also Charles J. Kolinski, Independence or Death: The Story of the Paraguayan War (Gainesville, 1965). An excellent, well-written study.

2. An advertisement sent through the mail from a California book dealer offered the Kolinski work for $25.00. I reserved my copy of this list of offerings in March 1977.

3. Letter to the author, 16 May 1977.

4. R. B. Cunninghame-Grahame, Portrait of a Dictator (London, 1933). This is essentially another biography of Francisco Solano López.

5. William E. Barrett, Woman on Horseback: The Biography of Francisco López and Eliza Lynch (London, 1938). Newer but not necessarily superior is Henry Lyon-Young's Eliza Lynch, Regent of Paraguay (London, 1966).

6. The only biographical effort on Francia in book form in English seems to be Edward White's El Supremo, A Romance of the Great Dictator of Paraguay (New York, 1916). There is little or nothing about this work to recommend it.