The War of the Pacific: Another book to add to the collection

Over the years I have acquired a number of books about the War of the Pacific (1879 to 1883), and when I saw that Alan Curtis had written FROM THE ATACAMA TO THE ANDES: BATTLES OF THE WAR OF THE PACIFIC 1879-1883, I had to buy a copy.

The book has twenty-four chapters and twenty-four appendices(!). The chapter titles are as follows:

1. The Road to War
2. The Contending Forces
3. The Battle of Calama
4. The Battle of Iquique
5. The Battle of Angamos
6. The Pisagua Landing
7. The Battle of San Francisco
8. The Battle of Tarapaca
9. The Battle of Los Angeles
10. The Battle of Tacna
11. The Assault on the Morro of Arica
12. The Blockade of Callao
13. The Battle of Chorrillos
14. The Battle of Miraflores
15. The First Battle of Pucara
16. The Action at Acuchimay, Concepcion, Maracavalle and 2nd Pucara
17. The Battle of San Pablo
18. The Battle of Huamachuco
19. The Fall of Arequipa
20. The End
21. Organisation of the Armies
22. Artillery
23. Uniforms
24. Major Warships

The appendices are as follows:

1. Chilean Forces at Pisagua
2. Chilean Forces at Tarapaca
3. Allied Forces at Tarapaca
4. Peruvian Forces at the Battle of Tarapaca
5. Chilean Casualties at Tarapaca
6. Peruvian Casualties at Tarapaca
7. Chilean Divisions January 1880
8. Forces at the Battle of Los Angeles
9. Second Army of the South (1880)
10. Allied Forces at the Battle of Tacna
11. Chilean Forces at the Battle of Tacna
12. Chilean Losses at the Battle of Tacna
13. Forces at the Storming of the Morro Arica
14. Armies of the North and Centre
15. Chilean Forces Landed at Pisco
16. Chilean Casualties at the Battle of Chorrillos
17. Chilean Casualties at the Battle of Miraflores
18. Official Chilean Casualty returns
19. Forces for the First La Brena Campaign
20. Chilean Deployment in the Mantaro Valley May 1882
21. Combined Armies of the North and Centre July 1883 (Peru)
22. The Peruvian Army of Arequipa 1883
23. Armies of the Final Campaign 1883
24. Armies of the Final Campaign: The Bolivian Army 1883

The book also contains thirty-five black-and-white illustrations, seven colour plates, and fifteen battle maps.

As you might gather, this book is pretty well a wargamer's guide to the War of the Pacific, and for anyone who has an interest in wargaming wars in that era, this is a 'must buy'. One note of caution, however. As Trebian (the writer of the WARGAMING FOR GROWN UPS blog) mentions in his review of this book, there are few typos and no index.

It is worth noting that Trebian is the author of IT'S GETTING A BIT CHILE, an excellent set of rules for fighting the land battles of this war.

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FROM THE ATACAMA TO THE ANDES: BATTLES OF THE WAR OF THE PACIFIC 1879-1883 was written by Alan Curtis and published in 2022 by Helion & Company as No.21 in their 'From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914' series (ISBN 978 1 914059-91-9).

IT'S GETTING A BIT CHILE: TABLETOP WARGAME RULES FOR LAND CONFLICT IN THE WAR OF THE PACIFIC 1879-1884 was written by Graham Evans and published in 2020 by Wargaming for Grown Ups Publications (ISBN 978 1 797 56040 3).