Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence by Harvey, Robert - 2000-09-01

Harry N. Abrams, 2000-09-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The Overlook Press [Published Date: 2000]. Hardcover, 561 pp. First edition, (with full number line). Very good in very good dust jacket. Black Paper over Boards with brown cloth on spine. light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality Brodart Cover NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [Publisher's summary] Treated with contempt by their Spanish overlords, given to dissipation and grandiose proclamations, these fearless men nonetheless achieved military feats unsurpassed elsewhere in history. The aristocratic Simón Bolívar led his guerilla armies through swamp, jungle, and Andean ice to surprise his enemies and liberate most of northern South America. The inarticulate San Martín joined Bernardo O'Higgins, illegitimate son of a Spanish viceroy, to do the same in the south. These and five others waged the war for freedom against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, the American Revolution, the collapse of the Spanish Empire, and the revolutionary ferment of the nineteenth century. Despite the success of their revolutions, all seven liberators died in poverty, disgrace, or oblivion. This fascinating and dramatic story takes in a vast range of martial experience, from butchery in the torrid Orinoco basin to a cavalry fought with lances 13,000 feet up in the mountains of Peru. It is one of the greatest and least-known epics of history, told here in unprecedented detail.