Guerrilla Warfare

Che Guevara's bestselling text on revolutionary tactics and strategy

Since Guerrilla Warfare was first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries alike. Ernesto "Che" Guevara outlines the lessons he learned as a guerrilla soldier in the Cuban revolution and explains how a small group of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support of the Cuban people, overcoming the odds to vanquish the US-backed dictator's army and overthrow the dictatorship. Guerrilla Warfare is both an insightful account of one of the decisive revolutionary movements of the twentieth century and a timeless resource for freedom fighters the world over.
This edition, which features a revised translation and a foreword by Harry "Pombo" Villegas, Che's compañero in the Cuban struggle who would also go on to fight alongside him in Bolivia and Africa, is the only edition to be authorized and revised by the Che Guevara Studies Center. Here for the first time are Che's corrections and his suggestions for further revisions to the text-revisions his murder in 1967 prevented him from making

"The positive feature of guerrilla warfare is that each guerrilla fighter is ready to die not just to defend an idea but to make that idea a reality. That is the essence of the guerrilla struggle. The miracle is that a small nucleus, the armed vanguard of a great popular movement that supports them, can proceed to realize that idea, to establish a new society, to break the old patterns of the past, to achieve, ultimately, the social justice for which they fight." -Ernesto Che Guevara