Guest: Thomas Whigham, author & professor 

Recorded: March 22, 2019

For non-subscribers, here is a 25+ minute preview of Radio War Nerd episode #174 on the War of the Triple Alliance — the bloodiest war in South America, a war that resulted in the near total-extermination of Paraguay's adult male population — with historian/author Thomas Wigham, who wrote a fantastic two-volume history of this unjustly obscure war . . .

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Buy Thomas Whigham's books — "The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct" and "The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay Versus the Triple Alliance, 1866-70" .