Prisoners of the Chaco: the bolivian experience of captivity

• Autores: Robert Niebuhr
• Localización: War in history, ISSN-e 1477-0385, ISSN 0968-3445, Vol. 28, Nº. 3 (julio), 2021, págs. 583-607
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • When Bolivian forces engaged the Paraguay Army in 1932 to control the desolate Chaco Boreal they began what would be a monumental transformative project. More than a quarter of a million men served on the Bolivian side, or almost 10 per cent of the total population. Of those, more than 50,000 perished and over 20,000 surrendered. Bolivian prisoners laboured in Paraguay as servants, construction workers, and farm hands; this article aims to detail aspects of who these prisoners were and what they did in captivity