Remembering Che My Life With Che Guevara Aleida March by Aleida March 9780987077998, 0987077996 instant download after payment.

For the first time, Aleida March evokes the memories of her partner, Ernesto Che Guevara. She describes their great romance and life together from the days when they first met as fellow guerrillas in Cuba's revolutionary war up to the tragic moment when she learned of Che's assassination in Bolivia less than a decade later.

As Che's widow, Aleida writes with passion and poignancy of their shared political dreams for the future and their family. Never before have readers been offered such an intimate insight into the man behind one of the great political symbols of our time.

• Includes one hundred intimate photos taken from the private family albums of Che with his children and his wife, including the last photos of Che and Aleida together when Che had disguised himself in preparation for his secret mission to Bolivia.
• Also includes facsimiles of postcards and letters Che sent to his family from abroad, as well as poems written to Aleida and a moving short story sent from Africa.

This book reveals Aleida's own great strength and courage as she came to terms with her private loss while under the international spotlight of millions of others who also mourned the death of a world-famous revolutionary, perhaps comparable to Yoko Ono after the death of John Lennon. She also describes her efforts to raise her four children as ordinary children despite their father's legendary status in Cuba and abroad.

Aleida March is currently the director of the Che Guevara Studies Center, Cuba.

March was Guevara’s second wife and the mother of four of his five children. After four decades of chosen silence, she reveals in her memoir many interesting and sometimes surprising aspects of her life and her life with Guevara. She was raised in a rural section of Las Villas province, and she aspired to become a teacher. Like many youthful and idealistic Cubans, she despised the Batista dictatorship, so joining the July 26th underground resistance seemed a moral imperative. Her account of her activities, primarily gathering and conveying information, is harrowing and inspiring. Her meeting with Guevara and the flowering of their relationship are recounted with emotion, but she avoids excessive sentimentality. March understandably ignores some of Guevara’s unpleasant traits, including his ideological rigidity and his intolerance for the failures of others. Still, the inclusion of previously unpublished letters to her show a seldom-seen side, as he seems capable of deep personal attachment as well as longings for the domestic life he has sacrificed. This is the informative and poignant story of a rather modest woman thrust into the center of some important historical events. --Jay Freeman

Aleida March is the director of the Che Guevara Studies Center, Cuba. From a humble family background, she joined the Cuban revolutionary underground movement as a young teacher in Santa Clara, central Cuba. She met Che during the revolutionary war and they married in June 1959. She now lives with their four children and numerous grandchildren in Havana.