Che Guevara (A Revolutionary Life (30th Anniversary Edition))

“Superb . . . Mr. Anderson does a masterly job in evoking Che’s complex character, in separating the man from the myth.”—New York Times Book Review

The thirtieth-anniversary edition of the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and beyond through armed revolution, now with a revised introduction and new afterword by the author

Many of the details of Che’s life have long been cloaked in secrecy and intrigue. Exhaustively researched and full of exclusive information, Che Guevara illuminates as never before this mythic figure who embodied the high-water mark of revolutionary communism as a force in history.

The book charts an extraordinary life, following Guevara from his comfortable upbringing in Argentina to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro’s government to his failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian mountains. Anderson conducted extensive interviews with Che’s comrades—some of whom speak here for the first time—and with the CIA men and Bolivian officers who hunted him down. He had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara’s widow and to carefully guarded Cuban government documents. During his research, Anderson discovered the long-concealed whereabouts of the revolutionary’s secretly buried body, which led to the recovery of the remains, their return to Cuba, and their interment at the site of Che’s most famous victory.

This anniversary edition has a revised introduction and a new afterword, in which Anderson, who has reported from Cuba for more than three decades, brings the story of Che’s long afterlife up to the present day.