Jon Lee Anderson

Making use of unprecedented access to Guevara's personal archives, his guerrilla cohorts, and Cuban government archives, an exhaustive biography traces the life of the Latin American communist revolutionary

A Revolutionary Life

Che Guevara

Wilfred Thesiger

In a study of the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, a noted British travel writer and explorer describes a way of life that lasted for thousands of years, until they were almost completely destroyed by Saddam Hussein, evoking the landscape and its teeming wildlife, profiling the many friends he made among the Marsh Arabs, and providing a record of the last remnants of a people and their culture. Original.

The Marsh Arabs

"The graphic novel adaptation of the groundbreaking and definitive biography of Che Guevara. The Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally recognized icon, as revered as he is controversial. In Che: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández present the man behind the myth, creating a complex and human portrait of this passionate idealist. Adapted from Jon Lee Anderson's definitive masterwork, and with renowned Mexican artist José Hernández's drawings"--

For every great historical event, at least one reporter writes an eye-opening account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds - George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War; John Hersey's Hiroshima and the dropping of the first atomic bomb; Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families and the Rwandan genocide. Whatever else is written about the Iraqi people and the fall of Saddam, Jon Lee Anderson's The Fall of Baghdad will remain the classic book about the Iraq War. No subject has become more hotly politicized than the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime, and so a thick fog of propaganda has obscured the reality of what the Iraqi people have endured and are enduring, under Saddam Hussein and now. Jon Lee Anderson has created an astonishing portrait of humanity in extremis, a work of great wisdom, human empathy, and moral clarity. In channelling a tragedy of epic dimensions through the stories of real people caught up in the whirlwind of history, Jon Lee Anderson has written a book of timeless significance.

The Fall of Baghdad

Che Guevara - Una Vida Revolucionaria

a revolutionary life

Una colección de reportajes, publicados previamente en la revista The New Yorker y compilados expresamente para Anagrama, que reúne personajes y paisajes políticos de España y Latinoamérica. Estos reportajes, publicados en la revista The New Yorker y compilados para Anagrama, reúnen personajes y paisajes políticos de España y Latinoamérica. Por estas páginas desfilan el rey Juan Carlos, Augusto Pinochet antes del juez Baltasar Garzón, un espectacular Hugo Chávez en una Venezuela de contrastes, el decrépito Fidel Castro en una Cuba sin salida satisfactoria para nadie, García Márquez de genial conspirador en el polvorín colombiano, los restos de Federico García Lorca en un tira y afloja entre lo político y lo sentimental, y las favelas brasileñas, donde florece la extraña mística del delito. Aunando la tradición de la semblanza crítica y el periodismo en directo, Anderson se caracteriza por la agudeza política, el hábil trazado de los contextos, la atención por el detalle iluminador y la concepción literaria del periodismo. Una reedición que viene acompañada de un prólogo de Carlos Manuel Álvarez Rodríguez, incluido en la lista de los mejores narradores jóvenes en español de la revista Granta, que se suma al de Juan Villoro que ya incluía la primera edición.

El dictador, los demonios y otras crónicas

Scott Anderson

The Shocking Expose of how Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League

Inside the League

Two weeks after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, Jon Lee Anderson gained access to Afghanistan from where he filed some of the most outstanding accounts of the fall of the Taliban. This book brings these graphic pieces together in one remarkable volume. The Lion's Grave includes a previously unpublished account of the search for Osama bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora and reveals the inside story of the assassination of the charismatic opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massoud. John Lee Anderson has woven together gritty up-to-the-minute observations, probing interviews and powerful storytelling to create a compelling portrait of high-technology warfare in a feudal terrain. Supplemented by vivid and hitherto unseen commentary, The Lion's Grave establishes itself immediately as a classic of war journalism.

Dispatches from Afghanistan

The Lion's Grave

die Biographie

Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and first-hand reporting on the war in Iraq for the New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson wrote Guerrillas, a pioneering account of five diverse insurgent movements around the world—the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the FMLN of El Salvador, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of Western Sahara, and a group of young Palestinians fighting against Israel in the Gaza Strip. Making the most of unprecedented, direct access to his subjects, Anderson combines powerful, firsthand storytelling with balanced, penetrating analysis of each situation. A work of phenomenal range, analytical acuity, and human empathy, Guerrillas amply demonstrates why Jon Lee Anderson is one of our most important chroniclers of societies in crisis.

Journeys in the Insurgent World

Guerrillas

In the months leading up to the American invasion of Iraq, this New Yorker correspondent “embedded’ himself among the people of Baghdad and, along with a small number of other Western reporters, rode out the entire invasion and much of the subsequent occupation from inside the city. Jon Lee Anderson’s dispatches from Baghdad were immediately and widely recognized as the most important writing anyone was doing on the war anywhere, for any publication. In recognition of its significance, The New Yorker routinely held the magazine open an extra day and set up a special production team to deal with the pieces; around the office, comparisons to John Hersey’s fabled article “Hiroshima” were flying. The Fall of Baghdad is not a collection of New Yorker pieces, though; it is an original and organically cohesive narrative work that tells the story of what the people of Baghdad have endured at the hands of Saddam Hussein, during the war and during its aftermath. This is not a pro- or anti-war book; the point is to bear witness to what the people in this city have endured, to put a human face on a calamity of epic dimensions. The focus alternates among a small cast of characters, a group of disparate Iraqis who allow Anderson to bring to life different facets of the story he wants to tell; and he fills in the canvas around his figures with rich background that makes their significance sing, and helps bind the book together as the definitive reckoning with one of the most fateful stories of our time.

Thomas Rees

Thomas Dworzak

Kandahar, a city of Pashtuns noted for their gaiety, so to speak, where Mullah Omar had made his final headquarters, has traditions of men in high-heeled sandals, with make-up of kohl and painted nails like sultry silent-movie stars. The Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak, on war assignment for The New Yorker, discovered these photographs of the Taliban days after they had fled the city. They hung among portraits of Bruce Lee, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ahmed Shah Massoud, their faces retouched by the artful brushwork of the photographer. Thomas Dworzak, originally from Koetzting, Bavaria Forest, began freelancing in Eastern Europe and the Middle East in 1991. Three years later he was based in Tbilisi, Georgia, covering the Caucasus and Chechnya.

Taliban

Bruno Stevens

Monica Garcia Prieto

"Truth Lies Within" tells the story of the people in the ancient city of Baghdad, before, during, and after the war that took place in Iraq in the spring of 2003. It tells the story of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime and of the chaos which accompanied the arrival of the Americans. But more than anything else, as its title suggests, this book is concerned with telling the truth--and rightly so, because few wars of modern times have ever been so lied about. An emotional diary of 200 photographs, "Truth Lies Within" also includes written contributions from highly esteemed journalists. Jon Lee Anderson, foreign correspondant with "The New Yorker," who was embedded in Baghdad as the bombs fell, offers a preface. Observations come from Monica G. Prieto of "El Mundo." And John Morris, the photo editor of "The New York Times" during the Vietnam War, closes the book with an afterword.

Truth Lies Within

Baghdad

Valeria Luiselli

Los niños perdidos : un ensayo en cuarenta preguntas

Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and his firsthand reports on the war in Iraq in the acclaimed THE FALL OF BAGHDAD, Jon Lee Anderson wrote GUERRILLAS, a daring on-the-ground account of five diverse insurgent movements around the world: the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the FMLN of El Salvador, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of Western Sahara, and a group of young Palestines fighting against Israel in the Gaza Strip. Making the most of unprecedented, direct access to his subjects, Anderson combines powerful storytelling with a balanced, penetrating analysis of each situation. A work of phenomenal range, analytical acuity, and human empathy, GUERRILLAS amply demonstrates why Jon Lee Anderson is one of our most important chroniclers of societies in crisis.

Um retrato revelador e instigante de Che Guevara. Considerada a biografia definitiva sobre Che Guevara, consegue transcender e retratar em detalhes um ser humano complexo. Em edição revista e atualizada, conta com uma nova introdução, um epílogo inédito, mapas revisados e uma cronologia atualizada da vida do ícone latino americano. No novo epílogo, Lee Anderson reflete sobre a situação atual da América Latina, em especial sobre Cuba, e avalia a imagem de Che nos dias atuais. Publicado originalmente em 1997 e eleito o livro do ano pelo New York Times, a biografia traz informações que durante muito tempo permaneceram em sigilo, como a que revela como o corpo de Che havia sido escondido depois de seu assassinato em 1967. Lee Anderson conta como o corpo foi recuperado e enterrado no local de sua batalha mais célebre, reconstituindo em detalhes o retorno, 30 anos depois, dos restos mortais a Cuba. Passados quase 35 anos da morte do líder guerrilheiro, sua imagem permanece sendo evocada em souvenires, estampando de camisetas a canecas, e no discurso político da esquerda latino-americana, em especial em Cuba, Venezuela e Bolívia, reforçando a estratégia nacionalista que sustenta os governos de Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales e Raúl Castro, substituto de Fidel.

Edição revisada e atualizada

Che: uma biografia

Christoph Bangert

In the spring of 2005, when the Iraqi insurgency reached its first peak, Westerners were being kidnapped and beheaded, and most journalists had left Iraq - Bangert arrived on assignment for The New York Times. He was one of the few photographers who remained, committed to covering the war throughout 2006 and 2007. This exciting book attempts to record the difference between the American invasion and the Iraqi civil war, and the space between us' and 'them'.'

The Space Between

Iraq

Paul Watson

Photographs from uprisings in Prague, Nicaragua, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Tunesia, Egypt, Libya, and other locations featuring the images of Magnum photographers

65 Years of Fighting for Freedom

Magnum Revolution

The New Yorker correspondent and author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life shares a series of reports from Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, describing a dangerous world of violence, feudal society, conspiracy, religious fanaticism, hardship, and war. Reprint.

Jon Lee Anderson

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