Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #329312 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-26
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

At last
At last a book that shows the other face of Ernesto. Not well argued or evidenced but he gets his 3 stars just for writing the book that needed to be written.

Dreadful,dreadful,dreadful!!!
Was the publisher drunk when deciding to publish this drivel? Provocative cover gets the interest going but save your money,this is dreadful writing and poor history.

Possibly the worst 'non-fiction' book I have ever read...

I was looking forward to reading this book and seeing a new perspective on Che Guevara. Unfortunately, Humberto Fontova certainly doesn't let evidence, the credibility of witnesses or even whether or not certain events really happened at all get in the way of his narrative. Out of the 256 pages, probably no more than 100 or so are actually about Che Guevara (who incidentally, Fontova seems to believe to be personally responsible for anything the Castro regime ever did that was wrong or questionable).

Of the rest of the book a large segment consists of Fontova ranting about types of people he doesn't like, or else painting right-wing parodies of their characters (democrats, university professors, people who aren't from the republican-right generally). The remaining space is filled with rants against film and music stars who at some point have worn pieces of Che iconography. I bought this awful waste of paper to read an alternative perspective on an historical figure, not diatribes against people like Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, who I have no interest in reading about at all.

I wish this book had a saving grace of some form, but it is just a very poorly-written, humourless, deliberate fabrication of history. Probably worse than David Irving.