Che Guevara

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from Che's widow, Aleida March, as well as access to hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Che's personal diaries, this biography of one of history's most fascinating figures by critically-acclaimed New York Times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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A 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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• ISBN Che Guevara book Biography English Paperback 832 pages