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The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Gustavo Gorriti, Robin Kirk (Translator), Robin Kirk
ISBN-13: 9780807846766, ISBN-10: 0807846767
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
Date Published: February 1999
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Gustavo Gorriti

Book Synopsis

A gripping account of Peru's guerrilla insurgency, known as the Shining Path, which plagued the nation for over fifteen years.

Philip Bennett

One of the pioneering works of Latin American investigative journalism....Endures not just as the essential history of the origins of Shining Path...but as an act of moral courage. -- Washington Post

	Introduction
	Preface to the English Edition
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	The Arrest	1
1	Return to Democracy	7
2	Chuschi	17
3	Mohammed, Mao, Macbeth	21
4	Expectations and the Transfer of Power	37
5	The Vanished Files	43
6	The Dogs of War	55
7	Guerrillas	77
8	The Quota	89
9	To Capture Weapons and Means	107
10	New Democracy	119
11	Tambo	132
12	The Emergency	138
13	Illusions	157
14	A City Dominated: A Blow Is Struck in Ayacucho	163
15	Let Us Develop the Guerrilla War	174
16	The Offer of Asylum to Guzman	189
17	The Colloquium of the Blind: The Intelligence War	198
18	The Fall of Vilcashuaman	214
19	Party Military Thought	231
20	The Siege of Ayacucho	238
	Notes	263
	Index	281

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