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  The Soccer War (Paperback) By (author) Ryszard Kapuscinski

  

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  Short Description for The Soccer WarIn 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. This title is Kapuscinski's story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of the Third World.
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  • Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
  • Published: 04 June 2007
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Autobiography: Business & Industry | Reportage & Collected Journalism | Anthologies (non-poetry) | Press & Journalism | Information Technology Industries
  • ISBN 13: 9781862079595 ISBN 10: 1862079595
  • Sales rank: 26,917

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• In 1964, renowned reporter 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 after 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 and been sentenced to death four times. "The Soccer War" is Kapuscinski's story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of the Third World.