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Prisoner of Pinochet : My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp / Sergio Bitar ; translated by Erin Goodman ; foreword and notes by Peter Winn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bitar, Sergio, author.
- Series:
- Critical human rights.
- Critical human rights
- Standardized Title:
- Isla 10. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chile--Politics and government--1973-.
- Chile.
- Bitar, Sergio.
- Political prisoners--Chile--Biography.
- Political prisoners.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- September 11, 1973: Chilean military forces under General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the elected government of President Salvador Allende, bombing the presidential palace with the president inside. Minister of Mining Sergio Bitar was forcibly detained along with other members of the Allende cabinet and confined on bleak, frigid Dawson Island in the Magellan Straits. Prisoner of Pinochet is the gripping first-person chronicle of Bitar's year as a political prisoner before being expelled from Chile; a poignant narrative of men held captive together in a labor camp under harsh conditions, only able to guess at their eventual fate; and an insightful memoir of the momentous events of the early 1970s that led to seventeen years of bloody authoritarian rule in Chile. Available in English for the first time, this edition includes maps and photos from the 1970s and contextual notes by historian Peter Winn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Originally published as Isla 10, by Sergio Bitar, 1987 by Sergio Bitar and Pehuen Editores.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780299313739
- 0299313735
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