By Ryszard Kapuscinski
ISBN-10: 0307424839
ISBN-13: 9780307424839
In 1975, Angola was once tumbling into pandemonium; every person who may well was once packing crates, desirous to abandon the beleaguered colony. together with his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the opposite direction, begging his used to be from Lisbon and luxury to Luanda--once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro--and chaos.
Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining and plantations, used to be a promised land for generations of terrible Portuguese. It had belonged to Portugal on account that ahead of there have been English-speakers in North the US. After the cave in of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal in 1974, Angola was once brusquely separate from, spurring the disaster of a still-ongoing civil battle. Kapuscinski plunged correct into the center of the drama, using earlier hundreds of thousands of haphazardly put check-points, the place utilizing the inaccurate shibboleth was once a question of existence and dying; recording his impressions of the younger soldiers--from Cuba, Angola, South Africa, Portugal--fighting a nebulous conflict with worldwide repercussions; and reading the extraordinary brutality of a rustic shocked and divided via its newfound freedom.
Translated from the Polish by means of William R. model and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland's so much celebrated international correspondent, was once born in 1932. After graduating with a level in historical past from Warsaw college, he used to be despatched to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan to file for the Polish information, which begun his lifelong fascination with the 3rd international. in the course of his 4 decads reporting on Asia, Latin the US, and Africa, he befriended Che Guevara, Salvador Allende, and Patrice Lumumba; witnessed twenty-seven coups and revolutions; and was once sentenced to dying 4 times.
His prior books--Shah of Shahs (about the Iranian Revolution), The Emperor (about the autumn of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie), Imperium (about the autumn of the Soviet Union), one other Day of existence (about the final days of Portuguese Angola), and The football conflict (a compendium of reportage from the 3rd World)--have been translated into nineteen languages. He died on Jan. 23, 2007.
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About a year later Dick Howser died, and I was reminded of and haunted by the bewildered look in his eyes just before the Houston press conference. Page 19 Besides each other, the Sports Guys have enjoyed several'common denominators. Two men standout: Lamar Hunt and George Toma. The Chiefs' owner quickly and graciously agreed to write the Introduction to this book while the famous Kansas City groundskeeper volunteered to tell stories about each. "What swell guys . . all of 'em. I love 'em all," Toma said in his typical, enthusiastic tone.
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