CHE GUEVARA : THE DEFINITIVE PORTRAIT OF ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYS MOST FASCINATING HISTORICAL FIGURES, BY CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALIST JON LEE ANDERSON

With unprecedented access to the Cuban Governments archives and total co-operation from Ches widow, Aleida March, as well as access to hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Ches personal diaries, this biography of one of historys most fascinating figures by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson is truly definitive and monumental - not least because its creation solved a twenty-eight-year-old mystery: the whereabouts of Che Guevaras body... Masterly and absorbing The Sunday TimesBrilliantly evoked... The portrait is now as complete as it will ever be The Times Literary SupplementAbsorbing and convincing... an indispensable work of contemporary history ? GuardianProbably the best biography I have read ***** Reader reviewIts hard to imagine that this work can be bettered ***** Reader reviewSimply outstanding ***** Reader reviewA terrific read and genuinely the type of book you cant put down after you start reading...... ***** Reader review***************************************************************A myth in his own lifetime; an international martyr-figure upon his death; a revolutionary fighter; a military strategist; a social philosopher; an economist; a medical doctor; a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro. Che Guevaras dream was an epic one - to unite Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed revolution, and to end once and for all the poverty, injustice and petty nationalisms that had bled it for centuries. In the end Che failed in his quest but he is recognized as that one-in-a-million personality who just might have pulled it off. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life shuttles between the revolutionary capitals of Havana and Algiers to the battlegrounds of Bolivia and the Congo; from the halls of power in Moscow and Washington to the exile havens of Miami, Mexico and Guatemala, in a gripping tale of revolution, international intrigue and covert operations. It has an epic sweep as it evoke