In light of recent political changes, I've decided to read more non-fiction. Stuck in the airport for a few hours, I decided to make it through the recent printing of Ernesto Che Guevara's
Guerilla Warfare . The book is a very well-written handbook on how to succeed in, as the title spells out, guerilla warfare. Needless to say, I learned quite a bit about traveling as a guerilla, eating as a guerilla and sleeping as one too. Che doesn't speak at all about the history up until the 1960s when the book was published. I tried to highlight the
key events using Papervitamins' Historical Reference information.
Che's book did remind me of
Niccolo Machievelli's The Prince . Which, is a bit of a political power handbook itself. Although The Prince is better knownfor it's personal philosophy (re: it is better to be feared than loved), I imagine that Che's Guerilla Warfare will soon be also. That is, if it is read with a generalist mindset.
