The Black Beret

Born to middle-class parents in Argentina, killed while a prisoner of the Bolivian Army under circumstances that have never been satisfactorily explained, Ernesto Guevara yet lives as the legendary "Che" of Castro's guerrilla forces and the spiritual leader of a continuing revolution. THE BLACK BERET is the full-length study of Guevara's extraordinary life :as Marxist theoretician of peasant revolt; as guerrilla fighter in the tremendous adventure of the Cuban revolution; as administrator and economic planner of Castro's Cuba; as envoy of the revolution in Africa and Latin America; and as leader of the ill-fated final mission that cost him his life in Bolivia. Based on personal interviews with scores of witnesses whose lives were touched and transformed by their contact with Guevera, on previously untranslated published works, and on the writings of Guevara himself -- including the diaries found after his death -- THE BLACK BERET is the biography of the most extraordinary revolutionary leader of the 20th Century, and the most intimate portrait yet to appear of the Che Guevara the man.