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...Chester A. Bain Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Ho Chi Minh: Guerrilla Warfare Strategist Chester A. Bain I The death of Ho Chi Minh has prompted a variety of commen­ taries on his career. Some have eulogized him as a great leader, as the father of his country. Other less...

...Earl F. Ziemke The Myth of the Guerrilla: Revolutionary Theory and Malpractice . By Bell J. Bowyer . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1971 . Pp. xiv , 285 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 164 The South Atlantic Quarterly mond as the cultural leader...

... of its history as a subterraneous process oriented toward self-government, not in an effort to romanticize indigenous and maroon communism, but to underline the tense relationship between the Venezuelan commune and nineteenth-century liberation struggles. Second, through the theories of former guerrilla...

... it to the profit of cultural historians and musicologists. DUKE UNIVERSITY GEORGE W. WILLIAMS The Myth of the Guerrilla: Revolutionary Theory and Malprac­ tice. By J. Bowyer Bell. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Pp. xiv, 285. $7.95. This unconventionally organized book consists of three case studies bracketed...

... surrounding the South China Sea significant movements of Communist-infiltrated or Communistdirected insurgency are now in progress. In rural central Luzon, where there is a notable upsurge of Huk guerrilla activity, but also in the major Philippine cities, where a Communist youth and labor front is developing...

... of an airliner in the sky over Beirut a necessary defensive act of a threatened nation; the execu­ tion of suspects is authorized by martial law, the bomb in the shop legitimized by the rules of guerrilla war, the assassination of a dip­ lomat becomes a military operation against an enemy agent. Libera­ tion...

... is a different interpretation. The prevailing view in the West at that time and even to this day was that the Communist guerrilla campaign unleashed in Greece in 1946 was merely part of a Soviet plan to extend Moscow s control to the shores of eastern Mediterranean. The evidence now indicates that Stalin, though...

... a considerable time in Syria, and it is here that he developed the first academies to train guerrillas to fight for the Kurdish Liberation Movement (KLM).5 Although the PKK was fighting primarily against Turkey at the time, a significant number of Kurds from Syria joined the PKK and became leading...

... or severely undernourished Cambodians have needed since 1979 has come from international organizations and foreign relief agencies. As burdensome for Hanoi has been waging an ever more extensive anti-Vietnamese guerrilla civil war as well. Meanwhile, Hanoi s Soviet ally and some 8,000 Russian technicians...

... of the guerrilla; on the other hand, the desperate men the author sees as the mainstay of guerrilla movements will find little comfort in merely being told they are on the wrong track. The book alludes to alternatives but actually proposes none. The final paragraph, in fact, concedes that the way...

..., and a Cretan guerrilla named Manoli pulled the General out of the car and dumped him into the back seat. Paddy then drove past twenty-two traffic control posts, where the sen­ tries saluted the car, and ditched it on the beach with a note explaining that the General had been taken to Egypt. The Germans were...

... Leigh-Fermor, the other or­ ganizer of this private plot, and a Cretan guerrilla named Manoli pulled the General out of the car and dumped him into the back seat. Paddy then drove past twenty-two traffic control posts, where the sen­ tries saluted the car, and ditched it on the beach with a note...

..., the dream of Marti, fell into the snares of history. Then the coup d etat of 1952 gave heart to the visionaries again. The armed conflict in the moun­ tains and the plains, the guerrillas and their clandestine struggle, defeated Batista and revived the possibility of utopia. Fidel Castro and the revolu­...

... Aufsätze, 37–40n5. See Maus, ‘‘The 1933 ‘Break 208. 11 See Carl Schmitt, Theorie des Partisanen: Zwischenbemerkung zum Begriff des Politischen (1963; Berlin: Duncker & Humboldt, 1995). Schmitt, though, interpreted the figure of the guerrilla in a fundamentally conservative way—for him...

... and Karari Njama. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1966. Pp. 512. $10.00. Much has been written by non-Africans to explain the revolt which disturbed Kenya from 1953 to 1956. Mr. Njama, a Kikuyu elementary schoolteacher, was one of the few educated Africans who took part in guerrilla warfare...

... that Duque s government show greater commitment to the 2016 peace accords signed between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) guerrillas. The implementation of those accords had been cut short due to the tensions and disputes surrounding them, and the fulfillment...

... large parts of the population to impede popular mobilization, disorganize the social actors, and maintain stable domination. For decades this unleashed a series of popular insurrections and led to the emergence of guerrilla groups (Pizarro 2019). This scenario was further complicated with the entrance...

... to the Moslems, and when the latter formed a rival government at Kokand, Red troops from Tashkent stormed the city and massacred some fourteen thousand Moslems. Ruthless seizures of grain and land further infuriated the East Asians, who formed the Basmachi, a guerrilla organization, to fight against the Soviet...

... the overthrow of the Horthy regime by the Soviet armies in 1945. The chief value of Fotitch s testimony is its firsthand account of the activities of the Yugoslav government in exile and the complex problems posed for the Allies by the existence of two rival guerrilla armies on Yugoslav soil. The negotiations...

... organized peasants living behind the Japanese lines into a massive guerrilla movement, which rapidly acquired military and political control of much of the supposedly Japanese-occupied countryside. For more than two years the Japanese were too preoccupied with destroy­ ing Chiang Kai-shek and the warlords...