Guerillas

The Classic of Modern War, now with a new introduction from the author 
 
‘There are few better guides to the new geopolitics and the incongruous, elusive, demanding realities on the ground’ Rory Stewart 
‘A resourceful, intrepid, piece of reportage . . . A book of unusual immediacy, one that has the unmistakable ring of authenticity’ Washington Post 
_______Passionate, idealistic, defiant, guerrillas evoke romantic images of the struggle for a just cause, giving them an almost mythical place among the bravest of warriors. Guerillas is a profound meditation on what it is that makes ordinary people to go to war, make them take the conscious decision to kill and die for an ideal that exists and cross an invisible line, towards a territory where death, and not life, is the main certainty. 
 
From the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the FMLN of El Salvador, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of Western Sahara, to a group of young Palestinians fighting against Israel in the Gaza Strip, Jon Lee Anderson travels through those war zones to create an extraordinary vision of individuals risking their lives in the struggle to change their world against overwhelming and improbable odds.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR 
 
Passionate, idealistic, defiant, guerrillas evoke romantic images of the struggle for a just cause, giving them an almost mythical place among the bravest of warriors. Guerillas is a profound meditation on what it is that makes ordinary people to go to war, make them take the conscious decision to kill and die for an ideal that exists and cross an invisible line, towards a territory where death, and not life, is the main certainty.From the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the FMLN of El Salvador, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of Western Sahara, to a group of young Palestinians fighting against Israel in the Gaza Strip, Jon Lee Anderson travels through those war zones to create an extraordinary vision of individuals risking their lives in the struggle to change their world against overwhelming and improbable odds.

Jon Lee Anderson

Brilliantly evoked... The portrait is now as complete as it will ever be

Absorbing and convincing... an indispensable work of contemporary history

A Revolutionary Life

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to the Cuban Government's archives and total co-operation from Che's widow, Aleida March, as well as access to hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Che's personal diaries, this biography of one of history's most fascinating figures by critically-acclaimed New York Times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.

Jon Lee Anderson

Praise for Che Guevara

Masterly and absorbing

Brilliantly evoked... The portrait is now as complete as it will ever be

Absorbing and convincing... an indispensable work of contemporary history

Masterly and absorbing

Brilliantly evoked... The portrait is now as complete as it will ever be

Absorbing and convincing... an indispensable work of contemporary history

Masterly and absorbing

Brilliantly evoked... The portrait is now as complete as it will ever be

Absorbing and convincing... an indispensable work of contemporary history

Books by Jon Lee Anderson

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