Fidel : An Illustrated Biography of Fidel Castro (Paperback)

from Magus_Manders

Please Note: This is only a review of preliminary reactions. The reviewer must do more research into the subject matter before making a solid judgments. Fidel is a small, book that tries to fit far too much within it. Kohan attempts to make it both a biography of Fidel Castro, a history of Cuba a...

from PhoenixTerran

Fidel: An Illustrated Biography by Néstor Kohan and illustrated by Nahuel Scherma, two Argentinians, was originally published in Spanish under the title Fidel para Principiantes (roughly translated as "Fidel for Beginners") in 2006. Seven Stories Press, a publisher based in the United States, pub...

from SeaBill1

As other reviewers here have noted, it is hard to get past the clumsy, old-school Marxist propaganda that forms the basis of this illustrated history. There IS a lot of useful information, if one can glean it from the heavy-handed point-of-view. Since the book is presented in one-page chapters th...