The Soccer War is Kapuscinski's extraordinary chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. The Soccer War is part diary and part reportage, a cogent and emotionally immediate recounting of the stories behind his official press dispatches--accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and absurd aspects of life during war. In these twenty-one pieces, Kapuscinski describes the overthrow of Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella in 1965, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, life in Ghana in the early years of Kwame Nkrumah, the deaths of Patrice Lumumba and Che Guevara, the 1970 "Soccer War" between El Salvador and Honduras, and many more scenes of international conflict. Translated by William R. Brand
"Kapuscinski is the conjurer extraordinary of modern reportage. The Soccer War is a splendid example of his magic."--John le Carre
"A remarkable collection--part memoir, part history, part journalism...writing of rare penetration and humanity."--The Chicago Tribune
Contents
The Hotel Metropol From the Streets of Harlem Plan for a Book that Could Have Started Right Here Lumumba The Party Chairmen The Offensive More of the Plan of a Book that Could Have Been Written Marriage and Freedom The Child-Support Bill in the Tanganyikan Parliament Algeria Hides Its Face A Dispute Over a Judge Ends in the Fall of a Government The Burning Roadblocks The Plan of the Never-Written Book that Could Be, Etc. High Time I Started Writing the Next Unwritten Book... The Soccer War Victoriano Gomez on TV High Time Continued, or the Plan of the Next Unwritten Book, Etc. Boots There Will Be No Paradise The Ogaden: Summer '76 Dispatches
Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland’s most celebrated foreign correspondent, was born in 1932 in Pinsk (in what is now Belarus) and spent four decades reporting on Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He is also the author of Imperium, Another Day of Life, and The Soccer War. His books have been translated into 28 languages. Kapuscinski died in 2007.
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The Soccer War is Kapuscinski's extraordinary chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. The Soccer War is part diary and part reportage, a cogent and emotionally immediate recounting of the stories behind his official press dispatches--accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and absurd aspects of life during war. In these twenty-one pieces, Kapuscinski describes the overthrow of Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella in 1965, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, life in Ghana in the early years of Kwame Nkrumah, the deaths of Patrice Lumumba and Che Guevara, the 1970 "Soccer War" between El Salvador and Honduras, and many more scenes of international conflict. Translated by William R. Brand
"Kapuscinski is the conjurer extraordinary of modern reportage. The Soccer War is a splendid example of his magic."--John le Carre
"A remarkable collection--part memoir, part history, part journalism...writing of rare penetration and humanity."--The Chicago Tribune
Contents
The Hotel Metropol From the Streets of Harlem Plan for a Book that Could Have Started Right Here Lumumba The Party Chairmen The Offensive More of the Plan of a Book that Could Have Been Written Marriage and Freedom The Child-Support Bill in the Tanganyikan Parliament Algeria Hides Its Face A Dispute Over a Judge Ends in the Fall of a Government The Burning Roadblocks The Plan of the Never-Written Book that Could Be, Etc. High Time I Started Writing the Next Unwritten Book... The Soccer War Victoriano Gomez on TV High Time Continued, or the Plan of the Next Unwritten Book, Etc. Boots There Will Be No Paradise The Ogaden: Summer '76 Dispatches
Author
Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland’s most celebrated foreign correspondent, was born in 1932 in Pinsk (in what is now Belarus) and spent four decades reporting on Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He is also the author of Imperium, Another Day of Life, and The Soccer War. His books have been translated into 28 languages. Kapuscinski died in 2007.
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