Che Guevara is a name that still sends shivers to one's spines and enforces the great lines from William Wordsworth about French Revolution, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven" . This great revolutionary Ernesto Guevara was born on 14th June, 1928 in Argentina. He studied medicine and became a good practitioner. He discovered himself and the desperation of poor Latin American people in his audacious continental trip on his motorcycle. He traveled across Latin America and in due course was intensely radicalized and became a communist Guerrilla. He met Fidel Castro in Mexico in 1954 and volunteered to fight in Cuban revolutionary war against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. He landed in Cuba with about dozen or two fighters in Nov 1956 and waged a guerrilla war against the Batista regime. This book is a record of famous battles, incidents etc occurred in those little more than 2 years of armed revolution (Nov 1956 - 1 Jan 1959). It describes in great details about the problems faced and sacrifices made by the people who believed in themselves and were devoted to the principles of Revolution and to the personality of Fidel Castro. No where in the diary, Guevara suffers from megalomania and his modesty in describing his own achievements is really worth emulating.
If you are a worshiper of Guevara then this book is like a Bible for you else it is just another diary written by just another guy.
Recommended (7/10).
Recommended (7/10).
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