Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior - A Firsthand Account of Atrocity

Informationen zum Autor Horacio Verbitsky is Argentina's leading investigative journalist, winner of the 1995 Latin American Studies Association Media Award, and author of a dozen books. He also presides over Argentina's main human rights organization, the Center for Legal and Social Studies. He lives in Buenos Aires. Klappentext Retired navy officer Adolfo Scilingo was the first man ever to break the Argentine military's pact of silence, stunning his compatriots and the world by openly confessing his participation in the hideous practice of pushing live political dissidents out of airplanes during Argentina's dirty war. Available for the first time in paperback, with a new introduction by Judge Gabriel Cavallo on the upcoming military trials and a new epilogue by the author, "Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior" includes the complete text of Scilingo's confession in the form of interviews given to Argentina's best-known investigative journalist, Horacio Verbitsky, along with an afterword by Juan Mendez, putting these events in the context of the dirty war.

Product details

• Authors: Horacio Verbitsky, Verbitsky Horacio
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.2005
• EAN: 9781565849853
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-985-3
• No. of pages: 323
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 212 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, True stories, Argentina, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, True stories: general, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution