Memoirs of Pancho Villa (Texas Pan American Series)

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Synopsis
&“A frequently fascinating and probably fairly accurate insight into the most controversial character of the Mexican Revolution.&” —Time Martín Luis Guzmán, eminent historian of Mexico, knew and traveled with Pancho Villa at various times during the Revolution. When many years later some of Villa&’s private papers, records, and what was apparently the beginning of an autobiography came into Guzmán&’s hands, he was ideally suited to blend all these into an authentic account of the Revolution as Pancho Villa saw it, and of the General&’s life as known only to Villa himself. This is Villa&’s story, his account of how it all began when as a peasant boy of sixteen he shot a rich landowner threatening the honor of his sister. This lone, starved refugee hiding out in the mountains became the scourge of the Mexican Revolution, the leader of thousands of men, and the hero of the masses of the poor. The assault on Ciudad Juárez in 1911, the battles of Tierra Blanca, of Torreón, of Zacatecas, of Celaya, all are here, told with a feeling of great immediacy. This volume ends as Villa and Obregón prepare to engage each other in the war between victorious generals into which the Revolution degenerated before it finally ended. The Memoirs were first published in Mexico in 1951, where they were extremely popular. This volume—translated by Virginia H. Taylor—was the first English publication. &“This biographical history presents as revealing a historical portrait of the Revolution as the author&’s earlier historical novel, The Eagle and the Serpent.&” —The Hispanic American Historical Review
Copyright:
1965

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
528 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780292759060
Related ISBNs:
9780292750289
Publisher:
University of Texas Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Martín Luis Guzmán
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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