The Guerrilla Wars of Central America

United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993. AD3 - A first British edition hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, and crease on the edges and corners, some scattered light scratches and rubbing, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and dents, some light stains, light discoloration and shelf wear. The Guerrilla Wars of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador & Guatamella. 9.5"x6.5", 222 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. From the 1960s to the 1980s revolutionary nationalists in Central America believed that only armed struggle could free their countries from US domination and oligarchical rule. Saul Landau tells the story of three bitter and bloody civil wars; of the overthrow of Somoza and eventual success in Nicaragua; and the achievement at long last of peace talks in El Salvador and Guatamela. In the 1980s the wars being fought in these tiny nations engaged the entire political world, as the US obsession with the Sandinistas produced the Iran-Contra scandal. In El Salvador the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero focussed world attention on liberation theology and the torture and murder of Catholic priests in Latin America. In Guatemala, US intervention in the 1950s helped to produce the bloodiest sequence of military governments in Central America. To write this book Saul Landau has interviewed top policy-makers in the United States and Central America. He looks at the differences as well as the similarities between these wars - wars which had their roots in the extreme inequalities of the region and were fuelled by US financial and military intervention, as US policy-makers saw in every regional conflict a Cold War dimension.. Signed by Author. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.