Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia
Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia was born in Asunción, Paraguay on 14 May 1960. He graduated from the Catholic University of Asunción where he got a B.A. in Clinical Psychology. He also took specialized English courses at Tulane University of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and San Diego State University in California. He is now retired but worked for nearly 40 years as an English Teacher and one of the Academic Coordinators at the Centro Cultural Paraguayo-Americano (CCPA), a binational institute in Asunción. Married with two children, he resides in the capital. He is an Aviation Historian who wrote more than 500 articles in specialized magazines and web pages on the Paraguayan Aviation history, and has given numerous lectures in schools, universities, institutes, military and civil institutions in Paraguay and abroad. Since 2004 he has been an aviation history professor in the Paraguayan Air Force (FAP). He has published thirty books since 1996, being this one his eighteenth with Helion. In May 2024, he was appointed Correspondent Academician at the Paraguayan Academy of History. He received a total of seven decorations for his academic merits, two from Argentina, one from Brazil and four from his own country, Paraguay.
Books
- Tupamaros : The Urban Guerrilla in Uruguay, 1967-1972 Author
- Naval Operations in the Chaco War : Paraguayan Navy Operations in Support of the War Author
- Operation Just Cause : The U.S. invasion of Panama, 1989 Author
- Cuban Military Aviation Volume 2 : The Cuban Army Air Force, the fight against Castro's Guerrillas, and the Bay of Pigs, 1952-1961 Author
- Operation Power Pack Volume 2 : The April Revolution and the Inter-American Peacekeeping Force, 1965-1966 Author
- Operation Power Pack Volume 1 : Civil War in the Dominican Republic, 1965 Author
- Cuban Military Aviation Volume 1 : Organisation and Development of the Cuban Army Air Corps 1913-1952 Author
- Araguaia War Volume 2 : Counterinsurgency Operations Against the Communist Guerilla in Brazil, 1967-1974. Counterinsurgency and Legacy: The Struggle for Control in Araguaia Author
- Che Guevara's Final Adventure : The Guerilla in Bolivia, 1967 Author
- Araguaia War Volume 1 : Counterinsurgency Operations against the Communist Guerrilla in Brazil, 1967-1974. The Roots of Conflict: Brazil's Military Regime and Revolutionary Beginnings Author
- Operativo Independencia Volume 2 : Guerilla War, The 1976 Coup Detat, and the Dirty War in Argentina Author
- Operativo Independencia Volume 1 : Armed Insurgency in Argentina 1955-1974 Author
- The Beagle Conflict Volume 2 : Argentina and Chile on the Brink of War 1978-1984 Author
- The Beagle Conflict Volume 1 : Argentina and Chile on the Brink of War, 1904-1978 Author
- Azules y Colorados : Armed Confrontations in the Argentine Armed Forces, 1962-63 Author
- Revolucion Libertadora Volume 2 : The 1955 Coup that Overthrew President Peron Author
- Revolucion Libertadora Volume 1 : The 1955 Coup detat in Argentina Author
- COIN Operations in Paraguay : Dirty Little Wars 1956-1980 Author
- The Chaco War 1932-1935 : Fighting in the Green Hell Author
- The 1989 Coup Detat in Paraguay : The End of a Long Dictatorship 1954-1989 Author
- The Chaco Air War 1932-35 : The First Modern Air War in Latin America Author
- Aerial Operations in the Revolutions of 1922 and 1947 in Paraguay : The First Dogfights in South America Author
