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Title: The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior by Horacio Verbitsky, Esther Allen, Juan Mendez ISBN: 1565840097 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75
Rating: 1
Summary: A Dreadful Translation
Comment: This is an essential read for anyone interested in the contemporary Argentine history. The writer is an acknowledged expert on the subject. Why then have I awarded it one star? Because the translation is appallingly bad, at times bordering on the incomprehensible. One gets the impression that it was done one word at a time, dictionary in hand. If you are not already familiar with the events and personalities of the period you'll have difficulty figuring out what's going on. Conclusion: Only for those who are never, ever going to learn to read Spanish
Rating: 4
Summary: The Flight by Horacio Verbitsky--Book Review
Comment: Verbitsky transcribes Scilingo's confession regarding the "flights" in which he participated during Argentina's dirty war, between 1976-83. The trivialization of his testimony gives the reader insight on how "desensitized" to their own excesses, the military had become by the time their "deed" was over. Scilingo was the first naval officer to admit to the military's violation of human rights during the war against "subversives". He exempts himself of responsibility by claiming that in the process of carrying out orders from the commanders in charge,the officers themselves, had also become victims of the process. He provides details involving the "loading" of the planes from which live bodies were thrown into the South Atlantic Ocean. A worthwhile tool in making an assessment on the entire story...
Rating: 5
Summary: A view into evil regime
Comment: An ex-officer in the Argentinean military confesses how political prisoners were murdered. I can't write "highly recommended" about this book, because it seems to trivialise those horrible events to some marchendising event. Just read it, you may not be able to sleep for few nights, but you'll get a true look into the mirror of evil regimes, supported by the United States only because they were "anti-communist".
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Title: The Little School: Tales of Disappearance & Survival in Argentina by Alicia Partnoy, Lois Athey, Raquel Partnoy ISBN: 1573440299 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century by Luis Alberto Romero, James P. Brennan ISBN: 0271021926 Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsin by David Rock ISBN: 0520061780 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 1989 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (The Americas) by Jacobo Timerman, Arthur Miller, Ilan Stavans, Toby Talbot, Jacob Timerman ISBN: 0299182444 Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr Pub. Date: 30 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture (Oxford World's Classics) by Marguerite Feitlowitz ISBN: 0195134168 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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