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    Guerrillas

    Journeys in the Insurgent World

    Author Jon Lee Anderson
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    On sale Sep 28, 2004 | 304 Pages | 9780142004975
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    “A resourceful, even intrepid, piece of reportage . . . A book of unusual immediacy, one that has the unmistakable ring of authenticity.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

    “A very good piece of battle reporting . . . especially vivid.” —Washington Monthly

    Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and first-hand reporting on the war in Iraq for the New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson wrote Guerrillas, a pioneering account of five diverse insurgent movements around the world—the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the FMLN of El Salvador, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of Western Sahara, and a group of young Palestinians fighting against Israel in the Gaza Strip. Making the most of unprecedented, direct access to his subjects, Anderson combines powerful, firsthand storytelling with balanced, penetrating analysis of each situation. A work of phenomenal range, analytical acuity, and human empathy, Guerrillas amply demonstrates why Jon Lee Anderson is one of our most important chroniclers of societies in crisis.
    Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent WolrfIntroduction

    One: Myths of Creation

    Two: A Parallel Reality

    Three: Earning a Living

    Four: Making War

    Five: Systems of Justice

    Six: A New Family

    Seven: Speaking to the Gods

    Afterword

    Acknowledgments

    © Valentyn Kuzan
    Jon Lee Anderson is an author and a staff writer for The New Yorker. As a longtime observer of political violence and revolutionary movements, he has reported from many war zones over the years, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Angola, Somalia, Mali, and Liberia. He has reported frequently from Latin America and profiled political leaders such as Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Nicolás Maduro. Anderson also wrote a celebrated biography of the late Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara and, in the course of his research, discovered the long-concealed whereabouts of Guevara’s secretly buried body in Bolivia. View titles by Jon Lee Anderson
    “A resourceful, even intrepid, piece of reportage . . . A book of unusual immediacy, one that has the unmistakable ring of authenticity.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

    “A very good piece of battle reporting . . . especially vivid.” —Washington Monthly

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    “A resourceful, even intrepid, piece of reportage . . . A book of unusual immediacy, one that has the unmistakable ring of authenticity.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

    “A very good piece of battle reporting . . . especially vivid.” —Washington Monthly

    Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and first-hand reporting on the war in Iraq for the New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson wrote Guerrillas, a pioneering account of five diverse insurgent movements around the world—the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the FMLN of El Salvador, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of Western Sahara, and a group of young Palestinians fighting against Israel in the Gaza Strip. Making the most of unprecedented, direct access to his subjects, Anderson combines powerful, firsthand storytelling with balanced, penetrating analysis of each situation. A work of phenomenal range, analytical acuity, and human empathy, Guerrillas amply demonstrates why Jon Lee Anderson is one of our most important chroniclers of societies in crisis.

    Table of Contents

    Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent WolrfIntroduction

    One: Myths of Creation

    Two: A Parallel Reality

    Three: Earning a Living

    Four: Making War

    Five: Systems of Justice

    Six: A New Family

    Seven: Speaking to the Gods

    Afterword

    Acknowledgments

    Author

    © Valentyn Kuzan
    Jon Lee Anderson is an author and a staff writer for The New Yorker. As a longtime observer of political violence and revolutionary movements, he has reported from many war zones over the years, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Angola, Somalia, Mali, and Liberia. He has reported frequently from Latin America and profiled political leaders such as Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Nicolás Maduro. Anderson also wrote a celebrated biography of the late Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara and, in the course of his research, discovered the long-concealed whereabouts of Guevara’s secretly buried body in Bolivia. View titles by Jon Lee Anderson

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    “A resourceful, even intrepid, piece of reportage . . . A book of unusual immediacy, one that has the unmistakable ring of authenticity.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

    “A very good piece of battle reporting . . . especially vivid.” —Washington Monthly

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