First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing account, it covers the dramatic years between the guerrillas' opening attack in 1980 and President Fernando Belaunde's reluctant decision to send in the military to contain the growing rebellion in late 1982. Covering the strategy, actions, successes, and setbacks of both the government and the rebels, the book shows how the tightly organized insurgency forced itself upon an unwilling...
First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation ...
Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant Amazonian canyons of orchids, pythons, and jaguars. The early-twentieth-century American adventurer Hiram Bingham told of the raging rivers and the wild jungles he traversed on his way to rediscovering the Lost City of the Incas, Machu Picchu. Seventy years later, news crews from ABC and CBS traveled to Peru to report on merciless terrorists, starving peasants, and Colombian drug runners in the...
Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote ...
Combining interviews and personal narrative, the author presents a portrait of the turbulent history of Peru, starting in 1983 when the Shining Path guerillas plunged the country into crisis. She explores why so many Peruvian women felt compelled to join the terrorists.
Combining interviews and personal narrative, the author presents a portrait of the turbulent history of Peru, starting in 1983 when the Shining Path g...
The only contemporary history of Colombia and the drug war and a vividly written and often mesmerizing first-hand account of the violence --The Wall Street Journal
The only contemporary history of Colombia and the drug war and a vividly written and often mesmerizing first-hand account of the violence --The Wall S...
The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island s recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and European colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the British. Selected texts depict perceptions of the country s multiple linguistic and religious communities, as well as its political travails...
The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island...
Travis is a successful businessman making more money than he will ever need. He has a woman in his life he cares about who is in love with his money and determined to spend it all. He has everything he could want except for the one thing he wants more than anything - a family. Renee was done with meeting the same type of men who only wanted to get between her legs and try to use her as an ATM machine. She wants more than that. She wants a husband, a family. Little did she know that a trip to the mall was going to change her life forever. Is it more than sex between them? Will they get the...
Travis is a successful businessman making more money than he will ever need. He has a woman in his life he cares about who is in love with his money a...
