The Ribs of Rosinante
Richard Gott, 21 August 1997
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
by Jon Lee Anderson.
Bantam, 814 pp., £25, April 1997,0 593 03403 1 Show More
by Jon Lee Anderson.
Bantam, 814 pp., £25, April 1997,
Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara
by Jorge Castañeda, translated by Marina Castañeda.
Bloomsbury, 480 pp., £20, October 1997,0 7475 3334 2 Show More
by Jorge Castañeda, translated by Marina Castañeda.
Bloomsbury, 480 pp., £20, October 1997,
“... ashore.The landings further radicalised the revolution. Castañeda quotes a wonderful summary from Herbert Marchant, the British Ambassador in Havana, who wrote that Fidel was only able to take his country into the Soviet camp ‘against the wishes and instincts of the majority of the population’ as a result of the April invasion, ‘which made the Suez ... ”
