The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski Kapuscinski
In 1964 Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. He reported on the fighting that broke out between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 around their matches to determine which one of them would qualify for the 1970 World Cup. By the time he returned to Poland he had witnessed twenty-seven revolutions and coups. The Soccer War is Kapuscinski's eyewitness account of some of the most defining moments in twentieth-century history.
* 'Part-diary, part-documentary account of the twenty years in which Kapuscinski make the telex machines chatter with his unique reportage, his datelines forming a gazetter of the world's trouble spots' Sunday Telegraph *'In this book you learn what it feels like to have benzene poured over you by someone who is about to set you alightYou feel very cold indeed' James Fenton, Independent on Sunday *'As rich and strange as anything in Marquez' Guardian
Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in 1932. During his four decades of reporting on Asia, Latin America, and Africa, Kapuscinski witnessed 27 coups and revolutions and was sentenced to death four times. His books include The Shadow of the Sun, The Emperor, Another Day of Life, The Shah of Shahs and Imperium (also available from Granta Books).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862079595 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862079595 |
| Title | The Soccer War |
| Author | Ryszard Kapuscinski Kapuscinski |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2007-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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