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A portrait of guerrilla warfare plunges readers into the tumultuous lives of insurgent warriors fighting for survival on five different fronts, from the Gaza strip to the bamboo forests of Burma to El Salvador, and provides new material on Iraq, the status of the five insurgent movements, and the relevance on modern-day guerrilla movements. Reprint.
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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.
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