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Diary of a Combatant: From the Sierra Maestra to Santa Clara
Author(s): Ernesto Che Guevara (Author)
- Publisher: OCEAN PRESS
- Publication Date: 27 Sept. 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 0987077945
- ISBN-13: 9780987077943
Book Description
This is the never-before published diary Che Guevara kept during the guerrilla war in Cuba when he joined the struggle to overthrow the Batista dictatorship that led to the 1959 revolution. Che’s widow Aleida March has now meticulously transcribed for the first time the small notebooks in which Che recorded his comments on events and individuals, often with a devastatingly brutal frankness. Unpublished for over 50 years, these original notebooks were a key inspiaration for the award-winning movie Che, which starred Benicio Del Toro.
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About the Author
Che Guevara was the legendary Argentine-born guerrilla fighter who joined the Cuban revolutionary movement that toppled the Batista dictatorship in 1959. He played a leading role in the early years of the Cuban revolution and made an extraordinary and original contribution to Marxist theory. He died at the hands of CIA assassins in Bolivia in 1967. His life has been dramatized in two recent popular movies: “The Motorcycle Diaries” (directed by Walter Salles, starring Gael García Bernal) and Steven Soderbergh’s epic “Che” (starring Benicio Del Toro).
