Che's Guerrilla War
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Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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A landmark work of political analysis and firsthand testimony, Che's Guerrilla War chronicles the ill-fated 1967 Bolivian campaign led by Ernesto Che Guevara through the unflinching account of French Marxist intellectual Régis Debray, who was himself captured and imprisoned during the ill-fated operation. Written with the urgency and moral weight of someone who witnessed the revolution's collapse from within, the narrative dissects the strategic, logistical, and political failures that doomed the guerrilla movement to defeat. Debray argues with unflinching candor that the Bolivian campaign was undermined by a fatal disconnect between the guerrilla foco and the local peasant population, as well as by the indifference of the Bolivian Communist Party. The tone is at once analytical and elegiac, balancing rigorous political critique with a profound sense of loss for a revolutionary ideal. Essential reading for students of Latin American history, Cold War politics, and revolutionary theory, the work remains one of the most penetrating post-mortems of the armed left ever written.
Author: Régis Debray
Format: Paperback
Published: 1975, Penguin Books
Genre: Military history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A landmark work of political analysis and firsthand testimony, Che's Guerrilla War chronicles the ill-fated 1967 Bolivian campaign led by Ernesto Che Guevara through the unflinching account of French Marxist intellectual Régis Debray, who was himself captured and imprisoned during the ill-fated operation. Written with the urgency and moral weight of someone who witnessed the revolution's collapse from within, the narrative dissects the strategic, logistical, and political failures that doomed the guerrilla movement to defeat. Debray argues with unflinching candor that the Bolivian campaign was undermined by a fatal disconnect between the guerrilla foco and the local peasant population, as well as by the indifference of the Bolivian Communist Party. The tone is at once analytical and elegiac, balancing rigorous political critique with a profound sense of loss for a revolutionary ideal. Essential reading for students of Latin American history, Cold War politics, and revolutionary theory, the work remains one of the most penetrating post-mortems of the armed left ever written.