Table of Contents
Introduction Jon Lee Anderson xi
Preface xxii
Part 1 Cuba
1 Mendoza: Where It All Started 3
2 News of Castro's Revolution Reaches Argentina: 1958 11
3 My Journey to the Island: April 1961 18
4 Starting Work in Cuba 29
5 'Compañero, Che Is Expecting You' 40
Part 2 Argentina
6 A Project for Utopia 57
7 An Army of Five Madmen 62
8 Training and the Missile Crisis: October 1962 70
9 Prague, Paris and Algiers: November-December 1962 83
10 Death Takes Centre Stage: Algiers, January-May 1963 97
11 Onwards to Bolivia and Argentina: May-June 1963 106
12 The Base in the Argentine Jungle: June 1963 115
13 Making Contacts in the Cities: July-August 1963 122
14 They All Wanted to Climb Aboard: September 1963 135
15 Bringing More Recruits to the Jungle Camp: November 1963 146
16 Defections and an Execution: February 1964 162
17 Sudden and Total Disaster: March 1964 172
Part 3 China
18 A Post-mortem with Che in Havana: May-July 1964 183
19 Beginning All Over Again: August 1964 189
20 Encounter in Uruguay with Raúl Sendic: September 1964 193
21 A Decision to Suspend Guerrilla Activity in Argentina: 1965 201
22 Summoned Back to Havana: May 1966 209
23 The Terraces of the Rising Sun: June-July 1966 220
Part 4 Bolivia
24 'Che Wants to See You': January 1967 235
25 The Camp with an Absent Comandante: March 1967 248
26 The Prophet in Tatters 262
27 A War Is Won by Fighting 267
28 Back at the Camp on the Ñancahuazú 271
29 Che Reiterates His Strategic Objective: Argentina 274
30 The First Battle: 23 March 1967 280
31 Bombardment, Che Calls a Meeting, and a Night March 285
32 Way Out Where There Was No Way Out 296
33 Leave-taking and Farewells 306
34 Under Arrest in Muyupampa: 20 April 1967 316
35 The CIA Takes Charge 332
36 On Trial in Camiri: October 1967 354
37 The Death of Che Guevara: 9 October 1967 374
Part 5 Prison in Camirí
38 A Thirty-year Sentence 381
39 Lunchtime in the Cage 386
40 Night Flight to Iquique: December 1970 408
Part 6 Exile
41 Chile in the Time of Allende: 1970-1973 429
42 Argentina: 1973-1976 435
43 Sweden, 1976 to the Present 446
Epilogue 452
Acknowledgements 467