NEW EDITION: Bolivian Diary Ernesto Che Guevara

doug hord (dhord@world.std.com)
Fri, 24 Feb 1995 11:56:14 -0600

Students of Latin American history will find the new English
edition of Che Guevara's Bolivian Diary useful.

Enclosed here is brief bibliographical information along
with the book's table of contents. Pathfinder's on-line
catalog at the address below contains excerpts from the
book that would be inconvenient to include in an email
message due to their length.

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THE BOLIVIAN DIARY OF ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA

Guevara's account, long unavailable in English, of the
1966-67 guerrilla struggle in Bolivia. A day-by-day
chronicle of military and political developments in the
campaign by one of the central leaders of the Cuban
revolution to forge a continent-wide revolutionary
movement of workers and peasants capable of contending for
power. New translation includes material published in
English for the first time.

467 pp., introduction, maps, photos, chronology,
appendices, notes, glossary, index

cloth $55.00 isbn 0-87348-767-2
paper $21.95 isbn 0-87348-766-4

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Ernesto Che Guevara
Biographical note...................................9

Introduction
by Mary-Alice Waters.............................. 11

Chronology................................................ 43

A Necessary Introduction
by Fidel Castro....................................51

Other nations of the world summon my assistance
Letter to Fidel Castro by Ernesto Che Guevara......71

THE BOLIVIAN DIARY OF ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA

November 1966..............................77
December 1966..............................89
January 1967..............................105
February 1967.............................123
March 1967................................139
April 1967................................163
May 1967..................................189
June 1967.................................207
July 1967.................................225
August 1967...............................247
September 1967............................265
October 1967..............................291

DOCUMENTS AND LETTERS BY CHE GUEVARA

Instructions For Cadres Assigned To Urban Areas
January 22, 1967....................................299

Communiques Of The ELN
No. 1. To the Bolivian People, March 27, 1967.......305
No. 2. To the Bolivian People, April 14, 1967.......308
No. 3. To the Bolivian People, May 1967.............309
No. 4. To the Bolivian People, June 1967............311
No. 5. To the Miners of Bolivia, June 1967..........312

Letters
To Fidel Castro, November 20, 1966..................315
To Ernesto Guevara Lynch, January 2, 1967...........316
To Ivan, January 26, 1967...........................316
To Fidel Castro, July 1967..........................317

ACCOUNTS BY OTHER COMBATANTS

My Campaign With Che by Inti Peredo
1. Che in Nacahuazu.............................322
2. Bolivia: Country in the Vanguard.............323
3. Toward a New Vietnam.........................328
4. The Desertion of the Communist Party.........330
5. The Mountains: A School for the New Man.....346
6. The Birth of the ELN.........................350
7. The First Battles............................360
8. The Search for Joaquin.......................374
9. The Ambush at La Higuera.....................388
10. The Yuro Ravine.............................393
11. Breaking the Encirclement...................401

TALKS BY CHE TO THE GUERRILLA UNIT
from Pombo s diary.......................409
from Rolando s diary.....................416
from Benigno s account...................420

ACCOUNTS BY CUBAN VETERANS

On the selection of the guerrillas zone of operations
by Pombo.........................................421
On the guerrillas battle for culture
by Pombo.........................................426
On the selection and training of the Cuban combatants
by Benigno.......................................428

List of Combatants.......................................432

Glossary.................................................435

Index....................................................455

MAPS
Bolivia, 8; the Bolivian campaign, 45; November 1966, 76;
December 1966, 88; January 1967, 104; February 1967, 122;
March 1967, 138; March-April 1967, 157; April 1967, 122;
May 1967, 188; June 1967, 206; July 1967, 224; August 1967,
246; September 1967, 264; October 1967, 290.

PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs can be found on pages 83, 114, 176, 231, 271,
296, 307, 415; sixteen pages of photographs follow page 238.

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