Che Guevara : you win or you die / Stuart A. Kallen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kallen, Stuart A., 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guevara, Che, 1928-1967--Juvenile literature.

Guevara, Che.

Guerrillas--Latin America--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Guerrillas.

Revolutionaries--Cuba--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Revolutionaries.

Cuba--History--1959-1990--Juvenile literature.

Cuba.

Latin America--History--1948-1980--Juvenile literature.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Lerner Publications, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

October 9, 1967. World-renowned revolutionary Che Guevara is dead at the age of thirty-nine. The charismatic Argentinian revolutionary had been leading guerilla fighters in the jungles of Bolivia and was captured by the Bolivian army. Mario Teran, a sergeant in the Bolivian army, volunteered to execute the prisoner. He carried out the bloody assignment with nine point-blank shots to Guevara's body. Around the globe, reactions to the assassination were mixed. In Cuba, where Guevara had helped overthrow a brutally repressive dictatorship in 1959, more than one million people mourned openly. But in the United States and elsewhere, many business leaders and government officials were relieved. Guevara's anti-capitalist movement sought to strip big businesses of their land and power. He wanted to set up socialist systems to spread wealth and resources among ordinary workers in Latin America and all around the world. To the rich and powerful, Guevara was a dangerous threat. In this chronicle of an assassination, find out what inspired the myth of Che Guevara and what brought him to this bloody crossroads of history."

Contents:

An aggressive romantic revolutionary

The making of a rebel

A guerrilla commander

A world famous revolutionary

Che's last battle

The making of an icon.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-85)and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-69445-X

1-4677-0144-0