George Pendle

Of all the measures undertaken by President Peron, none was more popular in Argentina than the nationalization of the British-owned railway system.

In the 1860s the Republic of Paraguay, under its dictator, Francisco Solano López, and his Irish consort, Eliza Lynch, became engaged in a desperate seven-years war with its neighbours. The memoirs of a small group of British doctors and engineers provide the basis for this account of the struggle.

George Pendle finds that the authoress of Little Arthur's History of England was also an inquisitive and adventurous traveller.

George Pendle retraces attempts by the British to seize control of Spanish colonies around the La Plata Basin, now part of Argentina and Uruguay.