Congo diary : episodes of the Revolutionary War in the Congo / Ernesto Che Guevara ; foreword by Aleida Guevara ; introduction by Gabriel Garc�ia M�arquez.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Che Guevara publishing projectPublisher: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2021]Description: 275 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780980429299
- 0980429293
- 9781644210727
- 164421072X
- Episodes of the Revolutionary War in the Congo
- Pasajes de la guerra revolucionaria. English
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965 -- Participation, Cuban
- Guevara, Che, 1928-1967
- Cubans -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History
- Guerrillas -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History
- Cuba -- Relations -- Africa
- Africa -- Relations -- Cuba
- Cubains -- Congo (R�epublique d�emocratique) -- Histoire
- Cuba -- Relations -- Afrique
- Afrique -- Relations -- Cuba
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
- Guevara, Che, 1928-1967
- Cubans
- Guerrillas
- International relations
- Military participation -- Cuban
- Africa
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Cuba
- Congolese Civil War (Congo (Democratic Republic) : 1960-1965)
- 1960-1965
- 327.729106 23/eng/20211013
- DT658.22 .G8413 2021
"First edition published in 2012."
"Published in Spanish as "Pasajes de la Guerra revolucionaria: Congo," ISBN 9781920888794."
Includes bibliographical references.
"In April 1965, Che Guevara set out clandestinely from Havana to Congo to head a force of some 200 veteran Cuban soldiers to assist the African liberation movement against Belgian colonialists, four years after the assassination of the democratically elected socialist president of Congo, Patrice Lumumba. This diary deals with what Che admits was a "failure," and he examines every painful detail about what went wrong in order to draw constructive lessons for planned future guerrilla movements. Unique among his books, Congo Diary gives us Che's brutal honesty and his story-telling ability as he recounts this fascinating episode of guerrilla warfare unblinkingly and without sugar coating or jargon. Considered by some to be Che's best book, it is also one of the few that he had a chance to edit for publication after writing it"-- Provided by publisher.
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