Most of the chapters in this book were originally published as Pasajes de la guerra revolucinaria in 1963, by the Cuban publishing house, Editorial Union. Many chapters had already appeared in serial form in the magazine of the Cuban armed forces, Verde Olivo. After it was published, Che Guevara made additions, deletions, and corrections to that book (see the photographs of these pages reproduced here), but these corrections were never included in subsequent ...
For many readers around the world, the publication of the essential writings of historic figures has a high symbolic value, given that they represent a perspective on a particular era and, in turn, a form of living memory of the author themselves. This is one the aims behind this publication of Guerrilla Warfare, which was written by Che Guevara between 1960 and 1961, and published immediately. The book, however, has its own history and evolution that, we venture ...
This book will help young people in today's turbulent, tragic world to really understand the man whose picture adorns so many T-shirts. Many of Che's comments about Marx reveal the link between the biographer and his subject and might also refer to Che himself. For example, his observation: Such a humane man whose capacity for affection extended to all those suffering throughout the world, offering a massage of committed struggle and indomitable optimism, ...