Reminiscences of the Cuban
Revolutionary War: Authorized
Edition (Che Guevara Publishing
Project) by Ernesto Che Guevara
The Real Deal
THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE “CHE: PART ONE” FROM STEVEN
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The dramatic art and acute perceptiveness evident in Che Guevara’s
early diaries fully blossom in this highly readable and often entertaining
account of the guerrilla war that led to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
Reminiscences is one of the two books for Steven Soderbergh’s biopic
(along with The Bolivian Diary).
Feature chapters describe Che’s first meeting with Fidel in Mexico, the
mythical moment when Che had to choose between a knapsack of

medicine and another of ammunition, and the anguished story of the
murdered puppy.
This new, thoroughly revised edition includes for the first time corrections
made to the diary by Che himself and a preface by his daughter Aleida .
“Reflects the life of an extraordinary and important man.”—Library
Journal “When Che Guevara cast his lot with Marxism and revolution the
world of letters suffered an incalculable loss. Guevara is a brilliant,
thoughtful writer. He is lucid, candid and revealing.”—The Cleveland Press
Features of this new edition include:
Preface by Aleida Guevara Revised translation Biographical note
Chronology Glossary 32 pp black and white photos
Personal Review: Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary
War: Authorized Edition (Che Guevara Publishing Project) by
Ernesto Che Guevara
If you wondered what revolution looks and feels like, of what the daily life-
or-death struggle consists, this book will show you. This isn't a Hollywood
fantasy, nor is it airy theorizing. Sure, there's some analysis, especially as
regards the various personalities and their respective groupings, as they all
advanced their respective agendas. Overall, though, this book consists in
descriptions of what the rebels and revolutionaries did in the Cuban
revolution.
Part of the real value of this book comes through the expression of
Guevara's temperament and personality. It is easy to see how he could
lead a body of men (and a few women) in an enterprise of great danger
such as this was--for he had the capacity to make cold decisions about
executing traitors or people who endangered the morale of the other
soldiers in the rebel army...while at the same time performing many acts of
real tenderness, such as providing rudimentary dental service for
peasants. His remarks in this book show that he had awareness of his
own limitations, and he sometimes expressed this in a humorous way. It's
a good sign when a man who holds life-or-death decisions over you can
laugh at himself.

Revolution is not a video game nor any other kind of game; this book
shows the real item, not some poeticized fantasy. It was only the
desperation of the Cuban people--especially the great majority, the
impoverished subsistence farmers who constituted the peasantry--that
made possible the guerrilla struggle and its later fruition as the rebel army.
This appears to me to be honest history, and is correspondingly valuable.
I read the 2006 edition of this book, and it includes some supplementary
essays and documents by Che, as well as a number of photographs taken
in the Sierra Mastre mountains during their time of struggle.
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