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,
“... General Alberto Bayo, a Spanish career officer who had fought against the Moroccans and against Franco during the Thirties. Exiled to Mexico at the end of the Spanish Civil War, he had begun a new life, training youthful Caribbean revolutionaries. When Fidel (whose own father came to Cuba during an earlier Spanish emigration) was casting around for a ... ”