Operation Massacre by Walsh, Rodolfo

Operation Massacre (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609805135)

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Operation Massacre by Walsh, Rodolfo

Operation Massacre

$16.95
Operation Massacre by Walsh, Rodolfo

Operation Massacre

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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1956. Argentina has just lost its charismatic president Ju n Per n in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land. June 1956: eighteen people are reported dead in a failed Peronist uprising. December 1956: sometime journalist, crime fiction writer, studiedly unpoliticized chess aficionado Rodolfo Walsh learns by chance that one of the executed civilians from a separate, secret execution in June, is alive. He hears that there may be more than one survivor and believes this unbelievable story 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, political refugees, fugitives, alleged informers, and anonymous heroes, in order to determine 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 night of the execution and its fallout.

Author: Rodolfo Walsh
ISBN-10: 1609805135
ISBN-13: 9781609805135
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2013
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2013
Publishers Weekly 07/29/2013
By Rodolfo Walsh
By Rodolfo Walsh
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The grandson of Irish immigrants, Rudolfo Walsh was born in a small Patagonian town in 1927. He wrote crime fiction and worked as a translator before publishing Operaci Masacre in 1957. Walsh then traveled to Cuba in the midst of the revolution and launched a newspaper in collaboration with Gabriel Garc僘 M疵quez, among others. Upon his return to Argentina in 1961 he was shunned by the journalistic community for his connections to the Cuban Revolution. In 1972, Walsh updated Operaci Masacre for the fourth and final time before joining the radical leftist group, the Monteneros, the following year. A day after submitting his now famous 1977 "Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta," Walsh was gunned down in the street by agents of the State.

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