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23%OFFPaul J. Dosal - Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956–1967 - 9780271022628 - V9780271022628
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Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956–1967

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Description for Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956–1967 Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 illustrations, 13 maps. BIC Classification: BG; JWKT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.

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Using new evidence from Guevara’s previously unpublished campaign diaries and declassified ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271022628
SKU
V9780271022628
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About Paul J. Dosal
Paul J. Dosal is Professor of History at the University of South Florida.

Reviews for Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956–1967
“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 ... Read more

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