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Book SynopsisThis book is designed specifically to provide an objective evaluation of Guevara's record as a guerrilla soldier, commander, and strategist from his first skirmish in Cuba to his defeat in Bolivia eleven years later.
Trade Review“This is a solid, realistic study of a man, not an icon. As the title suggests, Paul Dosal portrays the complete Che Guevara, but, above all, he is unsurpassed in revealing Che the guerrilla soldier—the grunt, the guy in the mud, facing death and killing ruthlessly.”
—Charles Ameringer,Penn State University
“This outstanding work is the first comprehensive, objective, and truly professional study of the contribution of Che Guevara to the theory and practice of revolutionary guerrilla warfare in the twentieth century. It is based on a thorough and careful reading of the relevant primary sources—principally, Che’s voluminous campaign diaries, along with recently declassified CIA documents on his operations in the Congo and Bolivia.”
—Neill Macaulay,University of Florida
“Before Osama bin Laden, there was Che Guevara. If one thinks this is hyperbole, meet the real Che in this outstanding book and contemplate what might have been had America’s cold war foes adopted Che’s ‘tricontinental strategy.’”
—Charles Ameringer,Penn State University
“He [Dosal] does not pretend to deal with Guevara’s personal life or his career as a bureaucrat in Cuba, but despite those deliberate omissions, if one could read only a single book about Guevara, this would not be a bad choice.”
—Henry Butterfield Ryan The Americas
“Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be more to say about Che Guevara along comes Paul J. Dosal with yet another book, a good one, in fact.”
—Henry Butterfield Ryan The Americas
“This outstanding work is the first comprehensive, objective, and truly professional study of the contribution of Che Guevara to the theory and practice of revolutionary guerrilla warfare in the twentieth century. It is based on a thorough and careful reading of the relevant primary sources—principally, Che’s voluminous campaign diaries, along with recently declassified CIA documents on his operations in the Congo and Bolivia.”
—Neill Macaulay,University of Florida
“This is a solid, realistic study of a man, not an icon. As the title suggests, Paul Dosal portrays the complete Che Guevara, but, above all, he is unsurpassed in revealing Che the guerrilla soldier—the grunt, the guy in the mud, facing death and killing ruthlessly.”
—Charles Ameringer,Penn State University
“This is an interesting and clearly-written study of Che the soldier and strategist, intended ‘for both scholars and the general public.’”
—British Bulletin of Publications
“Comandante Che reflects years of richly detailed research; it attempts to address virtually every major controversy over Che’s relationship with Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, the Cuban Communist Party, various Latin American parties and guerrilla movements, and the Soviet and Chinese leaderships whose ideological disputes framed Guevara’s commitment to global armed struggle against the United States, imperialism and capitalism.”
—Brian Loveman HAHR
Table of ContentsCONTENTS
List of Maps
Preface
1. Nobody Surrenders Here!
2. The Making of a Revolutionary
3. The Making of a Guerrilla
4. Comandante Che
5. All Guns to the Sierra
6. The Conquest of Santa Clara
7. Guerrilla Warfare
8. The Tricontinental Strategy
9. The History of a Failure
10. Here I Am Adviser to No One
11. Not Another Vietnam
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
