Charismatic, dashing, handsome and a revolutionary hero of the
1960s student left, Ernesto Che Guevara was a guerrilla fighter,
strategist, philosopher, doctor of medicine and friend and
confidante of Fidel Castro. Captured in the Bolivian mountains and
shot by the army in 1967, he became in death a martyr to the cause
and a legend. This long and detailed biography, written in the
aftermath of the Cold War, contains much new information especially
about his life as a revolutionary. The myth however remains
undented. (Kirkus UK)
With unprecedented access to the Cuban Government's archives and
total co-operation from Che's widow, Aleida March, as well as
access to hitherto unpublished documents, including several of
Che's personal diaries, this biography of one of history's most
fascinating figures by critically-acclaimed New York Times
journalist Jon Lee Anderson is truly definitive and monumental -
not least because its creation solved a twenty-eight-year-old
mystery: the whereabouts of Che Guevara's body... 'Masterly and
absorbing' -- The Sunday Times 'Brilliantly evoked... The portrait
is now as complete as it will ever be' -- The Times Literary
Supplement 'Absorbing and convincing... an indispensable work of
contemporary history' ? Guardian 'Probably the best biography I
have read' -- ***** Reader review 'It's hard to imagine that this
work can be bettered' -- ***** Reader review 'Simply outstanding'
-- ***** Reader review 'A terrific read and genuinely the type of
book you can't put down after you start reading......' -- *****
Reader review
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myth in his own lifetime; an international martyr-figure upon his
death; a revolutionary fighter; a military strategist; a social
philosopher; an economist; a medical doctor; a friend and confidant
of Fidel Castro. Che Guevara's dream was an epic one - to unite
Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed
revolution, and to end once and for all the poverty, injustice and
petty nationalisms that had bled it for centuries. In the end Che
failed in his quest but he is recognized as that one-in-a-million
personality who just might have pulled it off. Che Guevara: A
Revolutionary Life shuttles between the revolutionary capitals of
Havana and Algiers to the battlegrounds of Bolivia and the Congo;
from the halls of power in Moscow and Washington to the exile
havens of Miami, Mexico and Guatemala, in a gripping tale of
revolution, international intrigue and covert operations. It has an
epic sweep as it evokes an era of tumultuous change, describing
major events like the Bay of Pigs invasion, the October Missile
crisis and Kennedy's assassination, weaving in a cast of historic
personalities including Castro, Kennedy, Kruschev, Mao Tse-tung,
Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. With its painstaking
research, never-before-seen documentation and compelling narrative,
this is really the ultimate biography of a unique man.
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