The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo - Softcover

Guevara, Ernesto Che

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802138349 ISBN 13: 9780802138347

Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001

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Book by Guevara Ernesto Che

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Ernesto "Che" Guevara was one of the greatest exemplars of the revolutionary 1960s, a man whose heroic adventures were essential to the success of the Cuban Revolution and whose legend fired the imaginations of a whole generation. In 1965, amid worldwide conjecture, Guevara left Cuba, where he was a minister in Fidel Castro's postrevolutionary government, and traveled incognito to the heart of Africa. People's hero Patrice Lumumba had recently been assassinated, and Guevara was to put his theories of guerrilla warfare to use helping the oppressed people of the Congo throw off the yoke of colonial imperialism. The first task was to assist the young Laurent Kabila in his struggle against Mobutu and Tshombe, the two key figures in the newly independent nation.For the first time, The African Dream collects Guevara's unabridged journals of the expedition. They are the record of the bitter failure of a political and ideological dream, and a telling complement to the subsequent rise of Kabila and his recent demise. Most of all, the diaries afford the reader a very personal insight into the thoughts and emotions of Che Guevara, the twentieth century's great revolutionary martyr.

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• Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0802138349
• ISBN 13: 9780802138347
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304