Che My Brother

Author : Juan Martin Guevara,Armelle Vincent
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509517787

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Che, My Brother by Juan Martin Guevara,Armelle Vincent Pdf

On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages that Che was dead, they decided to say nothing. Fifty years on, his younger brother, Juan Martin, breaks the silence to narrate his intimate memories and share with us his views of the character behind one of history's most iconic figures. Juan Martin brings Che back to life, as a caring and protective older brother. Alongside the many practical jokes and escapades they undertook together, Juan Martin also relates the two extraordinary months he spent with the Comandante in 1959, in Havana, at the epicentre of the Cuban Revolution. He remembers Che as an idealist and adventurer and also as a committed intellectual. And he tells us of their parents - eccentric, cultivated, bohemian - and of their brothers and sisters, all of whom played a part in his political awakening. This unique autobiographical account sheds new light on a figure who continues to be revered as a symbol of revolutionary action and who remains a source of inspiration for many who believe that the struggle for a better world is not in vain.

Author : Hilda Gadea
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473816541

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My Life With Che by Hilda Gadea Pdf

He stayed to talk that day for some time. Eventually Lucila left the room. Then we turned to more personal matters, the disagreement completely forgotten. I confessed that I had been deeply moved by what he had written in the book' Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, was with him during a tumultuous period in his life, the period which turned him from an intellectual theorist to a dedicated revolutionist. After 5 years of marriage and the birth of their daughter, Hildita, Hilda Gadea paints an intimate and extraordinary portrait of this legendary figure; one who is a romantic wanderer, a philosopher and doting suitor and father. Ernesto Guevara and Hilda Gadea met in Guatemala as members of the political-exile community. Later they were forced to flee Mexico, where their friendship grew stronger and where, stimulated by the intelligence and knowledge of Hilda, Che's vista's broadened and his convictions hardened. Hilda's account of their life together in Mexico is filled with joy but at times is terribly strained. They found it difficult to make a living and Che suffered from severe asthmatic attacks. Nevertheless the excitement of involvement with the Castros and other Cuban refugees infuses every page. Gradually the character of this great leader is revealed by the woman who knew him best, providing a vital key to acomprehension of Che's legendary qualities.

Author : Scott Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135955519

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Me Against My Brother by Scott Peterson Pdf

As a foreign correspondent, Scott Peterson witnessed firsthand Somalia's descent into war and its battle against US troops, the spiritual degeneration of Sudan's Holy War, and one of the most horrific events of the last half century: the genocide in Rwanda. In Me Against My Brother, he brings these events together for the first time to record a collapse that has had an impact far beyond African borders.In Somalia, Peterson tells of harrowing experiences of clan conflict, guns and starvation. He met with warlords, observed death intimately and nearly lost his own life to a Somali mob. From ground level, he documents how the US-UN relief mission devolved into all out war - one that for America has proven to be the most formative post-Cold War debacle. In Sudan, he journeys where few correspondents have ever been, on both sides of that religious front line, to find that outside "relief" has only prolonged war. In Rwanda, his first-person experience of the genocide and well-documented analysis provide rare insight into this human tragedy.Filled with the dust, sweat and powerful detail of real-life, Me Against My Brother graphically illustrates how preventive action and a better understanding of Africa - especially by the US - could have averted much suffering. Also includes a 16-page color insert.

Author : Julia Baird
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848946514

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Imagine This by Julia Baird Pdf

'Honest and poignant' THE SUN The honest and revealing story of John Lennon's childhood by his sister Julia. Through her own personal journey, Julia reveals the battle between two strong, self-willed women - John's mother and his Aunt Mimi - to have custody of John in his early years. It was Aunt Mimi who finally won and removed John from his mother at the age of five. But as John grew up, he would frequently return home - spending time with his mother and half-sisters, Julia, Jackie and Ingrid, learning his love of music from his mother, and hanging out, playing guitar with his childhood friend Paul McCartney. Julia is candid about the sadness as well as the joy of their broken family life. She details the devestating loss of their mother Julia in a road accident - and describes the painful legacy for the entire family, especially John as he moves into a life of stratospheric fame with the Beatles.

Author : Marvin Johnson,Ray Goldstein,Jody Goldstein,Joy Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1982-06
Category : Bereavement in children
ISBN : 156123009X

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Where's Jess? by Marvin Johnson,Ray Goldstein,Jody Goldstein,Joy Johnson Pdf

A young child experiences a variety of feelings after the death of a sibling.

Author : Ernesto Guevara Lynch
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307806451

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Young Che by Ernesto Guevara Lynch Pdf

“I had prepared a life plan that included ten years of wandering, later years studying medicine. . . . All that's in the past, the only thing that's clear is that the ten years of wandering might grow longer . . . but it will now be of an entirely different type from the one I dreamed of, and when I arrive in a new country it will not be to go to museums and look at ruins, because that still interests me, but also to join the struggle of the people.” – Che Guevara, in a letter to his mother, 1956Assembled from two separate books written by Che's father, this is a vivid and intimate account of the formative years of an icon. Ernesto Guevara Lynch describes the people and personal events that shaped the development of his son's revolutionary worldview, from his childhood in a bourgeois Argentinian home to the moment he joined Castro to train for the invasion of Cuba in 1956. It also includes, available for the first time in the United States, Che's diary of his trip around Northern Argentina in 1950. Young Che is an indispensible guide to understanding one of the twentieth century's most famous and enduring revolutionary figures.

Author : Clayton E. Cramer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Mental health laws
ISBN : 1477667539

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My Brother Ron by Clayton E. Cramer Pdf

America started a grand experiment in the 1960s: deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. The consequences were very destructive: homelessness; a degradation of urban life; increases in violent crime rates; increasing death rates for the mentally ill. My Brother Ron tells the story of deinstitutionalization from two points of view: what happened to the author's older brother, part of the first generation of those who became mentally ill after deinstitutionalization, and a detailed history of how and why America went down this path. My Brother Ron examines the multiple strands that came together to create the perfect storm that was deinstitutionalization: a well-meaning concern about the poor conditions of many state mental hospitals; a giddy optimism by the psychiatric profession in the ability of new drugs to cure the mentally ill; a rigid ideological approach to due process that ignored that the beneficiaries would end up starving to death or dying of exposure.

Author : Allan Todd
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399042758

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Che Guevara by Allan Todd Pdf

Although Che Guevara was murdered almost sixty years ago, the famous red-and-black image of him is still widely seen around the world: at leftist political demonstrations and, ironically - given his strong opposition to capitalism - on many commercial products. However, he was a controversial figure during his lifetime - and remains so today. On both the political left and the political right, attitudes to him vary widely: while some see him as a romantic, highly-principled and legendary fighter for the world’s poor and exploited masses, others depict him either as an unrealistic and thus irrelevant adventurer, or even as a ruthless and cold-blooded butcher. Consequently, biographies about him over the decades have ranged from the overly sympathetic, to the extremely hostile. As well as covering aspects of his family life and his loves - and his early, sometimes less-than-revolutionary, attitudes - this biography, as expected, deals with those areas for which Che is best known. These include his adventurous explorations, as a young man on a motorbike, of Latin and Central America; his leadership and bravery during Cuba’s Revolutionary War; his practical and theoretical contributions to the conduct of guerrilla warfare; and his emergence as an international revolutionary legend who inspired radical young people in the 1960s, and who continues to inspire rebellious people around the world today. However, this biography also explores other aspects of Che’s life which are not so well-known. From an early age, he developed a keen love of reading, covering an eclectic mix of adventure stories, poetry, history and philosophy - and, from his teens, he began a lifetime habit of making notes on what he read. He also became a strong chess player, able enough to draw with one of the world’s leading grandmasters. Even during guerrilla campaigns, he managed to maintain those loves. Since his murder, he has emerged as an original contributor to Marxist economics and philosophy. It was his wide-ranging studies that led him to become an outspoken opponent of the ‘orthodox’ communism followed in the Soviet Union - and of its Cold War foreign policy of ‘peaceful coexistence’. His tolerance of, and willingness to work with, those having different views saw him accused of Maoism - and even Trotskyism. More accurately, Che has bequeathed the unique strand of revolutionary socialism known as ‘Guevarism’.

Author : Lewis Henry Morgan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803282303

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Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family by Lewis Henry Morgan Pdf

Modern anthropology would be radically different without this book. Published in 1871, this first major study of kinship, inventive and wide-ranging, created a new field of inquiry in anthropology. Drawing partly upon his own fieldwork among American Indians, anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan examined the kinship systems of over one hundred cultures, probing for similarities and differences in their organization. In his attempt to discover particular types of marriage and descent systems across the globe, Morgan demonstrated the centrality of kinship relations in many cultures. Kinship, it was revealed, was an important key for understanding cultures and could be studied through systematic, scientific means. ø Anthropologists continue to wrestle with the premises, methodology, and conclusions of Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity. Scholars such as W. H. R. Rivers, Robert Lowie, Meyer Fortes, Fred Eggan, and Claude Lävi-Strauss have acknowledged their intellectual debt to this study; those less sympathetic to Morgan?s treatment of kinship nonetheless do not question its historical significance and impact on the development of modern anthropology.

Author : Lewis Henry Morgan (ethnoloog, anthropoloog)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000053802

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Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family by Lewis Henry Morgan (ethnoloog, anthropoloog) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:31951D006495735

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Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600069656

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My Brother's Wife by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UGA:32108057773072

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The Journal of American Folklore by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joaquin De Torres
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456610791

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Brother's Keeper by Joaquin De Torres Pdf

Jason Li is seconds away from pulling the trigger to end his life. Difficult to believe considering three years ago he was on the fast track to becoming a Navy fighter pilot, following in the footsteps of his older brother and modern combat ace, Lt. Jordan Li. But now Jordan is dead; killed in what the Navy claims was a "freak accident" over the Pacific Ocean. Jason never got over the death of his brother-his mentor, his hero. Now discharged from the Navy for chronic mental breakdown, Jason has no career, no family and no reason to live. It's time to finish it. He begins to squeeze the trigger when suddenly- The doorbell rings. Standing there is a stranger who informs him that everything the Navy told him was a lie--a stratagem for one of the most daring Black Ops missions ever attempted. His brother was the centerpiece of that operation which has now reached critical mass. The Navy has reason to believe that Jordan may not be dead after all. They need Jason-enraged, victimized and unstable-to find his brother deep within China. If he accepts, the Pentagon gives him his life back, and the chance to fly the most advanced fighter plane ever designed. But if he refuses, hundreds of thousands of people will die.

Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000003086273

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Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquis of Bath Preserved at Longleat, Wiltshire: Seymour papers, 1532-1686 by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts Pdf