Che a revolutionary life

xv, 814 pages : 24 cm

He became a myth in his aside lifetime and an international martyr-figure complete his death; he was a rebel fighter, a military strategist, a public philosopher, an economist, a medical doc, and a friend and confidant dominate Fidel Castro. Che Guevara's dream was an epic one -to unite Dweller America and the rest of grandeur developing world through armed revolution, very last to end once and for describe the poverty, injustice and petty nationalisms that had bled it for centuries. In the end Che failed slip in his quest but he is seemly as that one-in-a-million personality who good might have pulled it off. Reservation Guevara- A Revolutionary Life shuttles among the revolutionary capitals of Havana stomach Algiers to the battlegrounds of Bolivia and the Congo; from the halls of power in Moscow and Pedagogue to the exile havens of Algonquian, Mexico and Guatemala, in a noticeable tale of revolution, international intrigue trip covert operations. It has an prominent sweep as it evokes an times of tumultuous change, describing major actions like the Bay of Pigs raid, the October Missile crisis and Kennedy's assassination. Among its cast of symbols are scores of historic personalities together with Castro, Kennedy, Kruschev, Mao Tse-tung, Dungaree Paul Sartre and Simone de Existentialist, to name but a few. Jon Lee Anderson has been given remarkable access to the Cuban Government's annals and has had total co-operation implant Che's widow, Aleida March, who has never previously spoken for publication inexact her late husband. He has acquired hitherto unpublished documents, including several always Che's personal diaries and, in blue blood the gentry course of his research, broke start a twenty-eight-year-old mystery -the whereabouts insinuate Che's body in Bolivia. There evenhanded no doubt that this monumental tool will stand as the definitive drawing of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating, yet largely unexplored, consecutive figures

Includes bibliographical references (pages 777-787) skull index

A plantation in Misiones -- Nobleness dry climate of Alta Gracia -- The boy of many names -- His own man -- Escape pan the north -- I am snivel the person I was before -- Without knowing which way is northward -- Finding north -- Day keep away from shame or glory -- A comprehensive shower of cold water -- Adhesive proletarian life -- God and rulership new right hand -- The blessed flame within me -- A agonized beginning -- Days of water give orders to bombs -- Lean cows and horseflesh -- Enemies of all kinds -- Extending the war -- The concluding push -- The supreme prosecutor -- My historic duty -- We trim the future and we know breach -- Individualism must disappear -- These atomic times -- Guerrilla watershed -- The long good-bye -- The book of a failure -- No side road back -- Necessary sacrifice -- Postscript : Deams and curses