On the seventeenth of July, 1979, the dictator Anastasio Somoza left Nicaragua after forty-five years. Finally, the family that had ruled and owned the country was gone. It took its money, which was much of the money the country had. The dictator left. The generals left. The colonels. They fled by helicopter and airplane, by car and on foot. By the nineteenth they were, almost all of them, gone. But the soldiers remained. And in San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, the rebel Commander Zero, Eden Pastora, was ...
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On the seventeenth of July, 1979, the dictator Anastasio Somoza left Nicaragua after forty-five years. Finally, the family that had ruled and owned the country was gone. It took its money, which was much of the money the country had. The dictator left. The generals left. The colonels. They fled by helicopter and airplane, by car and on foot. By the nineteenth they were, almost all of them, gone. But the soldiers remained. And in San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, the rebel Commander Zero, Eden Pastora, was facing the best of the dictator's remaining soldiers: Bravo, Montenegro, "the Rattlesnakes," "the Wild Geese," "the Black and White." Eventually the guardias fled too - some of them, including a tough, murderous sergeant from "the Rattlesnakes" (called Suicida by his men), making their way to El Salvador, from where, as the Contras, they waged sporadic war against the Nicaraguan leftist forces. Christopher Dickey was the first American newspaperman to go into the mountains of Nicaragua with the Contras and come out alive, and his account of the "secret" war that is being waged against the Sandinista government reads like the best fiction. Yet it is as factual as tomorrow's headlines.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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New. Updated with a Preface, October 1987. Shelf wear: Curl to right side of cover, slight bump, small smudge on bottom page ends. Pages, end papers, cover are perfectly clean. Multicolor cover as shown ISBN: 0671633139. With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua: by Christopher Dickey. Author was WaPo Mexico desk chief. Map frontispiece; B&W photo section. 6.0 x 9.0 x 0.4 inches. xi+329=335 pages, with notes, index. I wrap to protect your purchase, TRACK, ship daily, and guarantee.
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Very Good. Near Fine 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.327 with index. The author goes into the mountains with the contras and emerges to tell what he saw. This book describes the contras' day to day movements and guerrilla warfare and analyzes the role of the U.S. clean tight copy slight edgewear and creases to corners.
