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| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Guerrilla Warfare Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara, 1998-01-01 This indispensable book includes three of Che Guevara’s most influential essays describing his tactical philosophy of fighting a guerrilla war in Latin America. Guerrilla Warfare, written in 1960, outlines Guevara’s doctrine for guerrilla fighters, especially against Caribbean-style dictatorships. In Guerrilla Warfare: A Method (1963) and Message to the Tricontinental (1967), Guevara modified some of his earlier tenets. These latter two works move away from his earlier dogmatism, suggesting that Marxist revolution was possible even in purportedly democratic regimes. All three essays reflect his deeply held belief that a small, rural-based guerrilla army could trigger a revolution. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Guerrilla Warfare Ernesto Che Guevara, 2018-05-24 Guerrilla Warfare by the revolutionary Che Guevara has become the guidebook for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. Guevara intended it to be a manual on guerrilla warfare, as inspiration for revolutionary movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia, stressing the need for an underpinning political motivation to guerrilla methods, organisation and supply. Guevara emphasizes that guerrilla warfare is a favorable method against totalitarian regimes, where political opposition and legal civil struggle is impossible to conduct. THIS IS AN ATTRACTIVE LARGE GLOSSY PAPERBACK EDITION. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Guerrilla Warfare Ernesto Che Guevara, 2022-11-08 Che Guevara’s classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy. Since Guerrilla Warfare was first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries alike. In this book, Che Guevara outlines the lessons he learned as a guerrilla soldier in the Cuban revolution and explains how a small group of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support of the Cuban people, overcoming the odds to vanquish the US-backed dictator’s army and overthrow the dictatorship. Guerrilla Warfare is both an insightful account of one of the decisive revolutionary movements of the twentieth century and a timeless resource for freedom fighters the world over. This edition includes Che’s corrections and his suggestions for further revisions to the text—revisions his murder in 1967 prevented him from making. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Guerrilla Warfare Bert 'Yank' Levy, 2008-11-06 1941. Britain is under some of the heaviest air raids of the Second World War. Concerns about Nazi paratroopers landing in Britain and invading take hold in the hearts of the British citizenry. The Home Guard has been mobilised to defend against airborne assault – and it needs training. ‘Yank’ Levy is brought in to Osterley Park to teach guerrilla warfare, from practical experience in the Spanish Civil War. ‘Yank’ trains soldiers of the Home Guard how to use surveillance, defend against tanks and armoured vehicles, how to fight in towns and across country and against a well-supplied, highly-trained and mobile occupying force. His book, Guerrilla Warfare offers such sound advice as: ‘Whether you go to a tea-party or to work on your allotment...take your rifle with you. Don’t leave it downstairs for a German to grab if he enters the house’ and 'Your motto should always be: ‘Finish them! Then a quick get-away, and another ambush some place else’’ |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: The African Dream Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara, 2001 These African diaries--written when Che Guevara tried to help the people of the Congo throw off the yoke of colonial imperialism--afford a very personal insight into the thoughts and emotions of one of the 20th century's greatest revolutionary martyrs. of photos. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: The Politics of Che Guevara Samuel Farber, 2016-05-18 This reexamination of Ernesto Che Guevara's thoughts on socialism, democracy, and revolution is a must-read for today's activists—or anyone longing to fight for a better world. Fifty years after his death, Guevara remains a symbol to legions of young rebels and revolutionaries. This unique book provides a way to critically engage with Guevara's economic views, his ideas about revolutionary agency, and his conduct as guerrilla commander and government administrator in Cuba. Samuel Farber was born and raised in Cuba. He has written extensively on Cuba and the Cuban Revolution and is author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Companero Jorge G. Castañeda, 1998-10-27 By the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto Che Guevara had become a synonym for revolution everywhere from Cuba to the barricades of Paris. This extraordinary biography peels aside the veil of the Guevara legend to reveal the charismatic, restless man behind it. Drawing on archival materials from three continents and on interviews with Guevara's family and associates, Castaneda follows Che from his childhood in the Argentine middle class through the years of pilgrimage that turned him into a committed revolutionary. He examines Guevara's complex relationship with Fidel Castro, and analyzes the flaws of character that compelled him to leave Cuba and expend his energies, and ultimately his life, in quixotic adventures in the Congo and Bolivia. A masterpiece of scholarship, Companero is the definitive portrait of a figure who continues to fascinate and inspire the world over. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present Max Boot, 2013-01-15 New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book (Nonfiction) Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Foreign Policy A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “Destined to be the classic account of what may be the oldest... hardest form of war.” —John Nagl, Wall Street Journal Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or guerrilla warfare has been the dominant form of military conflict throughout history. New York Times best-selling author and military historian Max Boot traces guerrilla warfare and terrorism from antiquity to the present, narrating nearly thirty centuries of unconventional military conflicts. Filled with dramatic analysis of strategy and tactics, as well as many memorable characters—from Italian nationalist Guiseppe Garibaldi to the “Quiet American,” Edward Lansdale—Invisible Armies is “as readable as a novel” (Michael Korda, Daily Beast) and “a timely reminder to politicians and generals of the hard-earned lessons of history” (Economist). |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Revolution in the Revolution? Regis Debray, 2017-11-07 Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che’s own pamphlets, with which it can compete in terms of historical importance and insight to this day. Lucid and compelling, it spares no personage, no institution, and no concept, taking on not only Russian and Chinese strategies but Trotskyism as well. The year it was published, Debray was convicted of guerrilla activities in Bolivia and sentenced to thirty years in prison. He was released in 1970, following an international campaign, which included appeals by Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul VI. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Che, My Brother Juan Martin Guevara, Armelle Vincent, 2017-06-06 On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages that Che was dead, they decided to say nothing. Fifty years on, his younger brother, Juan Martin, breaks the silence to narrate his intimate memories and share with us his views of the character behind one of history's most iconic figures. Juan Martin brings Che back to life, as a caring and protective older brother. Alongside the many practical jokes and escapades they undertook together, Juan Martin also relates the two extraordinary months he spent with the Comandante in 1959, in Havana, at the epicentre of the Cuban Revolution. He remembers Che as an idealist and adventurer and also as a committed intellectual. And he tells us of their parents - eccentric, cultivated, bohemian - and of their brothers and sisters, all of whom played a part in his political awakening. This unique autobiographical account sheds new light on a figure who continues to be revered as a symbol of revolutionary action and who remains a source of inspiration for many who believe that the struggle for a better world is not in vain. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Comandante Che Paul J. Dosal, 2010-11-01 The victory of Fidel Castro&’s rebel army in Cuba was due in no small part to the training, strategy, and leadership provided by Ernesto Che Guevara. Despite the deluge of biographies, memoirs, and documentaries that appeared in 1997 on the thirtieth anniversary of Guevara&’s death, his military career remains shrouded in mystery. Comandante Che is the first book 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. Using new evidence from Guevara&’s previously unpublished campaign diaries and declassified CIA documents, Paul Dosal reassesses Guevara&’s impact as a guerrilla warrior and theorist, comparing his accomplishments with those of other guerrilla leaders with whom he has been ranked, including Colonel T. E. Lawrence, Mao Tse-Tung, and General Vo Nguyen Giap. This reassessment reveals that Guevara was often underrated as a conventional military strategist, overrated as a guerrilla commander, and misrepresented as a guerrilla theorist. Guevara achieved his greatest military victory by applying a conventional military strategy in the final stages of the Cuban Revolution, orchestrating the defensive campaign that held off the Cuban army in the summer of 1958. As a guerrilla commander, he scored impressive victories in ambush after ambush in Bolivia, but in winning the battles he lost the war. He violated most of his own precepts during the Bolivian campaign, compelling analysts to question the validity of both his strategies and his command skills. Though he is credited with developing foco theory, Guevara never attempted to advance a new theory of guerrilla warfare. He was a fighter, not a theorist. He wanted to defeat American imperialism by launching guerrilla campaigns simultaneously in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, but his tricontinental strategy resulted in failures first in the Congo and then in Bolivia. Comandante Che presents the full record of Guevara&’s successes and failures, separating myth from reality about one of the twentieth century&’s most controversial revolutionary figures. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare Sam Charles Sarkesian, 1975-01-01 âRevolutionâ is a word that causes fear in some, exhilaration in others, and confusion in most. Originally used to describe a restoration, it eventually came to mean a sweeping, sudden attack on an existing order. Human history has borne witness to a variety of national and social revolutionsâpopulation revolution, revolution of ideas, technological revolution, and revolution in education. Simultaneously, there has been a proliferation of literature on revolution, armed struggle, and violence aimed at unseating policies and leadership of governments and societies. Revolutionary struggles are more than simply armed internal conflict; they involve the essence of the political system. The desire to make such phenomena understandable often leads to oversimplification. Attempts to encompass their multi-dimensional nature, on the other hand, can become immersed in complexities, ambiguities, and misinterpretations. The perspective of this classic volume, available in paperback for the first time, is that revolution is here to stay. Guerrilla warfare, according to Sarkesian, is a particularly useful strategy for the weak, the frustrated, the alienated, and seekers of power against existing regimes. The collected works in this volume examine the social roots of revolution, development of strategy and tactics, practice in city and countryside, dilemmas of attackers and defenders. The actors and thinkers collected and analyzed here range from leading political analysts, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and officials as well as practitioners of guerrilla warfare. This core text with primary sources in the area of war, revolution, and insurgence develops an understanding of revolution, traces the growth of guerilla doctrine, and studies the specifics of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary guerilla warfare. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Che Guevara Guerrilla Warfare Che Guevara, 1969 |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Che Guevara Jon Lee Anderson, 1997 He Became A Myth In His Own Lifetime And An International Martyr-Figure Upon His Death; He Was A Revolutionary Fighter, A Military Strategist, A Social Philosopher, An Economist, A Medical Doctor, And A Friend And Confidant Of Fidel Castro. Che Guevara S Dream Was An Epic One To Unite Latin America And The Rest Of The Developing World Through Armed Revolution, And To End Once And For All The Poverty, Injustice And Petty Nationalisms That Had Bled It For Centuries. In The End Che Failed In His Quest But He Is Recognized As That One-In-A-Million Personality Who Just Might Have Pulled It Off.Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life Shuttles Between The Revolutionary Capitals Of Havana And Algiers To The Battlegrounds Of Bolivia And The Congo; From The Halls Of Power In Moscow And Washington To The Exile Havens Of Miami, Mexico And Guatemala, In A Gripping Tale Of Revolution, International Intrigue And Covert Operations. It Has An Epic Sweep As It Evokes An Era Of Tumultuous Change, Describing Major Events Like The Bay Of Pigs Invasion, The October Missile Crisis And Kennedy S Assassination. Among Its Cast Of Characters Are Scores Of Historic Personalities Including Castro, Kennedy, Kruschev, Mao Tse-Tung, Jean Paul Sartre And Simone De Beauvoir, To Name But A Few.Jon Lee Anderson Has Been Given Unprecedented Access To The Cuban Government S Archives And Has Had Total Co-Operation From Che S Widow, Aleida March, Who Has Never Previously Spoken For Publication About Her Late Husband. He Has Obtained Hitherto Unpublished Documents, Including Several Of Che S Personal Diaries And, In The Course Of His Research, Broke Open A Twenty-Eight-Year-Old Mystery The Whereabouts Of Che S Body In Bolivia. There Is No Doubt That This Monumental Work Will Stand As The Definitive Portrait Of One Of The Twentieth Century S Most Fascinating, Yet Largely Unexplored, Historical Figures. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Guerrilla Warfare Peter Polack, 2018-12-19 A concise history of guerilla warfare through the lens of several guerilla leaders, also covering strategy and tactics. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution Anna Clayfield, 2019 This book examines the way in which the guerrilla origins of the Cuban Revolution have shaped the beliefs and values that have underpinned it since 1959.The book proposes that it is this guerrilla discourse which holds the key to understanding not only the survival of the Revolution itself, but the longevity of its leadership. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: The Marxism of Che Guevara Michael Löwy, 2023-06-14 “Excellent. . . .The book gives one a clear understanding of the relationship of Guevara's thought to traditional Russian and Marxist philosophy.” —Choice Reviews In this seminal exploration of Che Guevara’s contributions to Marxist thinking, Michael Löwy traces Che's ideas about Marxism both as they related to Latin America and to more general philosophical, political, and economic issues. Now revised and updated, this edition includes a chapter on Guevara's search for a new paradigm of socialism and a substantive essay by Peter McLaren on Che’s continued relevance today. Löwy portrays Guevara as a revolutionary humanist who considered all political questions from an internationalist viewpoint. For him, revolutionary movements in Latin America were part of a world process of emancipation. Löwy considers especially Che's views on the contradiction between socialist planning and the law of value in the Cuban economy and his search for an alternative road to the “actually existing socialism” of the Stalinist and post-Stalinist Soviet bloc. Che’s varied occupations—doctor and economist, revolutionary and banker, agitator and ambassador, industrial organizer and guerrilla fighter—were expressions of a deep commitment to social change. This book eloquently captures his views on humanity, his contributions to the theory of revolutionary warfare, and his ideas about society’s transition to socialism, offering a cohesive, nuanced introduction to the range of Guevara's thought. “An excellent classroom tool for anyone teaching about Latin America or revolution.” ―Science & Society “[This book] provides us with the picture of [Guevara’s] great, flexible, and searching mind.” —Carleton Beals “Michael Löwy’s brief but penetrating book takes Che Guevara not as a romantic adventurer but as a serious revolutionary militant.” ―Telos |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Tania Ulises Estrada, 2005 The story of the Cuban undercover agent sent to Bolivia in advance of Che's arrival told by a key participant in the revolutionary movement in Latin America. Ulises Estrada was the principal organiser of Che's guerilla mission to Bolivia and the man who trained Tania in her position as Cuba's Bolivian spy. Tania, born Haydee Tamara Bunke to German Jewish refugees in Argentina, became one of Cuba's most successful agents, penetrating Bolivia's high society and attaining direct contact with the President. She was killed in the 1967 ambush of Che's guerilla group. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: On Guerrilla Warfare Mao Tse-Tung, 2021-02-26 In 1937, Mao was in retreat after ten years of battling the Nationalist troops of Chiang Kai-shek. During this period, he wrote a succinct pamphlet that remains one of the most influential documents on warfare to this date. This treatise, the first systematic analysis of guerilla warfare, established Mao as the architect of a new method of warfare. On Guerrilla Warfare is Mao's case for the extensive use of an irregular form of warfare in which small groups of combatants use mobile military tactics in the forms of ambushes and raids to combat a larger and less mobile formal army. Mao wrote the book in 1937 to convince Chinese political and military leaders that guerilla style-tactics were necessary for the Chinese to use in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The book has since become a classic and should be of interest to anyone who wants to learn about guerilla warfare and how it is effectively conducted, and anyone interested in warfare, terrorism, and revolution in general. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Principles of War Carl von Clausewitz, 2012-03-08 DIVThe most cited, most controversial, and most modern book on warfare. The author examines moral and psychological aspects of war: courage, audacity, self-sacrifice, the importance of morale and public opinion, more. /div |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Exposing the Real Che Guevara Humberto Fontova, 2007-04-19 A debunking of liberal myths about one of the most bloodthirsty icons of the twentieth century. Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the mainstream media celebrate Ernesto Che Guevara as a saint, a sex symbol, and a selfless martyr. But their ideas about Che—whose face adorns countless T-shirts and posters—are based on the lies of Fidel Castro's murderous dictatorship. Che's hipster fans are classic useful idiots, the name Stalin gave to foolish Westerners who parroted his lies about communism. And their numbers only increased after a new biopic was released, starring Benicio Del Toro. But as Humberto Fontova reveals in this myth-shattering book, Che was actually a bloodthirsty executioner, a military bumbler, a coward, and a hypocrite. In fact, Che can be called the godfather of modern terrorism. Fontova reveals: • How he longed to destroy New York City with nuclear missiles. • How he persecuted gays, blacks, and religious people. • How he loved material wealth and private luxuries, despite his image as an ascetic. Are Che fans like Angelina Jolie, Jesse Jackson, Carlos Santana, and Johnny Depp too ignorant to realize they've been duped? Or too anti-American to care? |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Che Guevara Richard L. Harris, 2010-11-18 This concise biography of the world famous revolutionary Che Guevara provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of his remarkable life, tragic death, and enduring political legacy. Che Guevara is one of the most controversial and iconic figures in recent memory and is still a hero to many. Che Guevara: A Biography provides a balanced and engaging introduction to the famous revolutionary leader. Based on original research, the biography reveals how Che's early life prepared him for leadership in the Cuban Revolution. It also explores his revolutionary activities in Africa and Bolivia, as well as the circumstances surrounding his tragic death on October 9, 1967. More than just a record of events, the book cogently examines Che's contributions to the theory and tactics of guerrilla warfare, his ideas about imperialism and socialism, and his enduring political legacy. It includes original information on the 1997 discovery of the hidden remains of his body and on the celebration of his life and ideals by the socialist regime in Cuba. And it looks at the reasons why leftist political leaders, movements, and governments in Latin America and the Caribbean still pay homage to this charismatic man. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Women & Guerrilla Movements Karen Kampwirth, 2010-11 The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the &new man.& But, in fact, many of the &new men& who participated in these movements were not men. Thousands of them were women. This book aims to show why a full understanding of revolutions needs to take account of gender. Karen Kampwirth writes here about the women who joined the revolutionary movements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the Mexican state of Chiapas, about how they became guerrillas, and how that experience changed their lives. In the last chapter she compares what happened in these countries with Cuba in the 1950s, where few women participated in the guerrilla struggle. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, Kampwirth examines the political, structural, ideological, and personal factors that allowed many women to escape from the constraints of their traditional roles and led some to participate in guerrilla activities. Her emphasis on the experiences of revolutionaries adds a new dimension to the study of revolution, which has focused mainly on explaining how states are overthrown. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Che Guevara Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara, 2006-05 This book is a compilation of radical writings and speeches by Che Guevara (aka Ernesto Che Guevara). This is one of the most complete collections of writings by Che Guevara and include important texts on Guerrilla Warfare, Politics and Revolution. This book should not be passed over by anybody studying the life or beliefs of Che Guevara, history of radicalism and radical movements or the history of Cuban politics. These included texts are a must read for those interested in this important period of world history and of radical political thought and ideologies. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Guerrilla David Rooney, 2004 Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national ambitions, have been trailblazers in this form of warfare. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla Carlos Marighella, 2021-03-09 Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla is a call to action, no matter how small. It is a small book which gives advice on how to overthrow an authoritarian regime, aiming at revolution. Minimanual was written to be concise and and to describe the ways for successful revolution. This book has been fought over to keep in print time and time again after being banned in multiple countries, and while there are a few copies consistently recurring in print today, we wish to spread this important revolutionary text further. Eliminating its copyright. Do not let this minimanual be an isolated event, share it, keep it in your pocket to read, and spread it. If you have the means, print it from home as well from our zine library. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Diary of a Combatant Che Guevara, 2013-10-14 Che Guevara's original, unpublished diaries from the guerrilla war in Cuba's Sierra Maestra. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor Ernesto Che Guevara, 2021-09-02 An extraordinary selection of the letters of Che Guevara 'Always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world' Che Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life. This selection of his letters begins with his youthful motorcycle travels around Latin America as a wide-eyed medical student, and goes on to cover the Cuban Revolutionary War - including his letter to Castro after its success - his subsequent role as a government leader, travels to the Congo and finally Bolivia at the end of his life. Together they map the emergence of a dedicated revolutionary, but also reveal him as a master narrator: honest and insightful, with a razor-sharp wit, an iron will and, in his intimate writings to his family, a great capacity to express affection for those closest to him. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: The War of the Flea Robert Taber, 1972 |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Che Guevara Speaks Che Guevara, 1967 |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: A New Society Che Guevara, 1991 |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Che Guevara Talks to Young People Che Guevara, 2000 Eight speeches the legendary Cuban guerilla fighter delivered between 1959 and 1964 to such groups as the First Latin American Youth Congress, international volunteer work brigades, and the Ministry of Industry seminar on Youth and the Revolution. Closing the collection is a 1997 tribute by Fidel Castro. Profiles of people and organizations, a list of suggested reading, photos, and an index support the transcripts. c. Book News Inc. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Cyber Guerilla Jelle Van Haaster, Rickey Gevers, Martijn Sprengers, 2016-06-14 Much as Che Guevara's book Guerilla Warfare helped define and delineate a new type of warfare in the wake of the Cuban revolution in 1961, Cyber Guerilla will help define the new types of threats and fighters now appearing in the digital landscape. Cyber Guerilla provides valuable insight for infosec professionals and consultants, as well as government, military, and corporate IT strategists who must defend against myriad threats from non-state actors. The authors take readers inside the operations and tactics of cyber guerillas, who are changing the dynamics of cyber warfare and information security through their unconventional strategies and threats. This book draws lessons from the authors' own experiences but also from illustrative hacker groups such as Anonymous, LulzSec and Rebellious Rose. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Che: Selected Works of Ernesto Guevara Che Guevara, 1969 Writings, speeches, interviews, and letters of Che Guevara. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Guerrilla Warfare Che Guevara, 2013-01-07 Originally published: New York: Monthly Review Press, 1961. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Guerrilla Warfare Ernesto Che Guevara, 2017-08-17 Guerrilla Warfare (Spanish: La Guerra de Guerrillas) is a book by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara that was written right after the Cuban Revolution and published in 1961. It soon became the guidebook for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world.After his success in the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara gained a global reputation as a rising revolutionary figure, which eventually led him to write Guerilla Warfare. In the manual, Guevara espouses three reasons for revolution: a lack of legitimacy by the incumbent elite to govern the country, the existence of tensions that cannot by redressed by regular channels, and all legal avenues to change the situation are perceived as closed. Although providing enough evidence and support for his ideas and tactics, Guevara on multiple occasions states that, while these tactics were effective for him and his men in Cuba, they will not necessarily be successful in other regions. Guerrilla Warfare is a manual for the left-wing insurgency that draws on Guevara's experience as a participant in the Cuban revolution. It elaborates the foco theory (foquismo), for which the guerrilla operates as a vanguard even before the development of the objective conditions for a popular uprising.While many draw parallels with Mao Zedong's On Guerrilla Warfare, Guevara claimed he had not read Mao's book. Instead it draws on the lessons of fighting during the Cuban Revolutionary War, which in turn were informed by two books from the Spanish Civil War, Nuevas guerras and Medicina contra invasi�n, stressing the need for an underpinning political motivation to guerrilla methods, organisation and supply.Guevara goes on and divides the book into three different Chapters, each entailing their own perspectives on the roles of those who belong to a revolutionary cause. The first chapter labeled General Principles of Guerrilla Warfare, goes on and discusses the basics of what it means to be part of a Guerrilla War, the topics range from the essences of Guerrilla Warfare to tactics, strategies, and suburban warfare. Chapter two labeled The Guerrilla Band talks about the roles that a Guerrilla fighter must take on while being part of a revolution, things ranging from being a Social Reformer to being a combatant, to even the organization and development of the band before and after the war. Chapter three labeled Organization of Guerilla Front which focuses more on the logistics of a Guerrilla War, ranging from supplies to training, it is an all aspects sorts of a chapter which goes into further detail than the previous two chapters. Much of the manual is devoted to matters of a practical nature, such as the type of armaments best suited to guerrilla forces, and the optimum size of a given guerrilla band.Guevara emphasizes that guerrilla warfare is a favorable method only against totalitarian regimes, (such as the revolutionary war against the Batista dictatorship in Cuba), where political opposition and legal civil struggle is impossible to conduct. South African revolutionaries read the work in the early 1960s; former Minister of Intelligence, Ronnie Kasrils, notes that the Apartheid regime's police questioned his late wife about an order of Che Guevara's book on guerrilla warfare. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Che's Travels Paulo Drinot, 2010-09-01 Ernesto “Che” Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che’s Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and then from Argentina through Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. Each essay is focused on a single country and written by an expert in its history. Taken together, the essays shed new light on Che’s formative years by analyzing the distinctive societies, histories, politics, and cultures he encountered on these two trips, the ways they affected him, and the ways he represented them in his travelogues. In addition to offering new insights into Guevara, the essays provide a fresh perspective on Latin America’s experience of the Cold War and the interplay of nationalism and anti-imperialism in the crucial but relatively understudied 1950s. Assessing Che’s legacies in the countries he visited during the two journeys, the contributors examine how he is remembered or memorialized; how he is invoked for political, cultural, and religious purposes; and how perceptions of him affect ideas about the revolutions and counterrevolutions fought in Latin America from the 1960s through the 1980s. Contributors Malcolm Deas Paulo Drinot Eduardo Elena Judith Ewell Cindy Forster Patience A. Schell Eric Zolov Ann Zulawski |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Rhodesian SAS Combat Manual Rhodesian Forces, 2021-03-22 The Rhodesian SAS Combat Manual is a significant historical look at the small unit tactics employed by this elite unit during the Rhodesian Bush War. Not only is it a glimpse back at how the unit operated, but a lot of the material is still relevant today for units fighting counter-insurgencies. This book covers tactical follow-ups, ambush tactics, infiltration methods and combat tracking and more! |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Pombo Pombo, 1997 A never-before-published story of the 1966-68 revolutionary campaign in Bolivia led by Ernesto Che Guevara. It is the diary and account of Pombo -- a member of the guerrilla's general staff, a young Cuban fighter still in his 20s and already a veteran of a decade of struggle around the globe. Harry Villegas, known the world over by his nom de guerre, Pombo, is today a brigadier general in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. His day-by-day account of this epic chapter in the history of the America's illuminates the times we are living through and foreshadows the titanic battles that will mark the Americas of the 21st century. |
| che guevara book guerrilla warfare: Guerrilla Warfare By: Ernesto Che Guevara, 2009-07 A classic text on revolution by Che Guevara. A bestselling classic for decades, this is Che Guevara own incisive analysis of the Cuban revolution a text studied by his admirers and adversaries alike. This is an account of what happened in Cuba and why, explaining how a small group of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support of the Cuban people, overcoming their limitations to defeat a dictator army. This new edition features a revised translation and a foreword by Harry Pombo Villegas, Ches comrade in Bolivia and Africa, who was one of the few survivors of Ches Bolivian campaign. The positive feature of guerrilla warfare is that each guerrilla fighter is ready to die not just to defend an idea but to make that idea a reality. That is the essence of the guerrilla struggle. The miracle is that a small nucleus, the armed vanguard of a great popular movement that supports them, can proceed to realize that idea, to establish a new society, to break the old patterns of the past, to achieve, ultimately, the social justice for which they fight Che Guevara |
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara [b] (14 June 1928 [a] – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure …
Che Guevara | Biography, Facts, Books, Fidel Castro, & Death
Jun 10, 2025 · Che Guevara (born June 14, 1928, Rosario, Argentina—died October 9, 1967, La Higuera, Bolivia) was a theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, a prominent communist …
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Apr 25, 2023 · Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna, the controversial Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, was a central figure in the Cuban Revolution, serving as second in command …
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Che's portrait was simplified and reproduced on a vast array of merchandise, such as T-shirts, posters, and baseball caps -- and Guevara remains an icon of world revolution.
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Che: Part One: Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac, Pablo Guevara. In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles …
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Oct 1, 2024 · Chè is either coconut cream or water. To add flavor, people also throw in jellies, pulses, rice, beans, tubers and even cereals. You can also add your preferred canned fruits to …
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara [b] (14 June 1928 [a] – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure …
Che Guevara | Biography, Facts, Books, Fidel Castro, & Death
Jun 10, 2025 · Che Guevara (born June 14, 1928, Rosario, Argentina—died October 9, 1967, La Higuera, Bolivia) was a theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, a prominent communist …
Home | CHE Behavioral Health Services
CHE provides Behavioral Health services to residents of long-term care and rehabilitation centers in a compassionate and cost effective manner. Research demonstrates that good mental …
Che Guevara - Facts, Death & Biography - HISTORY
Apr 25, 2023 · Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna, the controversial Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, was a central figure in the Cuban Revolution, serving as second in command …
Che Guevara (1928-1967) | American Experience | PBS
Che's portrait was simplified and reproduced on a vast array of merchandise, such as T-shirts, posters, and baseball caps -- and Guevara remains an icon of world revolution.
Che: Part One (2008) - IMDb
Che: Part One: Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac, Pablo Guevara. In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles …
Chè | Traditional Dessert From Vietnam, Southeast Asia
"Where to Eat Chè: Che Cot Đien - Under the rotting wooden rafters, there’s what can only be described as a chè laboratory: pots, pans, jars, bowls, and cups all filled with mysterious and …
Vietnamese Chè Recipe - Travel Food Atlas
Oct 1, 2024 · Chè is either coconut cream or water. To add flavor, people also throw in jellies, pulses, rice, beans, tubers and even cereals. You can also add your preferred canned fruits to …
15 Delicious Vietnamese Chè Desserts - HowdyKitchen
Sep 15, 2024 · Vietnamese Chè is more than just a dessert—it's a celebration of contrasting textures and vibrant flavors. From the smooth richness of coconut milk to the chewy tapioca …
