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Operation Massacre

By Gitlin , Daniella;Walsh , Rodolfo J

Book information

Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781609805135, 1609805135
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (4869853 bytes)
Pages
xxxiv, 235 pages : carte ; 22 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Police--Argentine--Buenos Aires (Province);Police

Description

Buenos Aires, 1956. Argentina has just lost its charasmatic president Juan Peron in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land. June 1956: eighteen people are reported dead in a "secret" execution, a failed uprising. December 1956: high school dropout, sometime journalist, detective story writer, studiedly unpoliticized chess aficionado Rodolfo Walsh learns by chance that one of the executed civilians is alive. He hears that there may be more than one survivor. Walsh hears an unbelievable story and believes it on the spot. And right there, the monumental classic Operation Massacre is born. Walsh made it his mission to find not only the survivors but widows, orphans, conspirators, political refugees, fugitives, alleged informers, and anonymous heroes, in order to find out what happened that night, sending him on a journey that took over the rest of his life. Originally published in 1957, Operation Massacre thoroughly and breathlessly recounts the...

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