Date:21/06/2011 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/yw/2011/06/21/stories/2011062150190300.htm

Another Che diary

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Diary of a Combatant:People queue up to buy.

Aleida March, widow of Ernesto Che Guevara, has unveiled a previously unpublished diary of Che. She said these writings would allow readers to know Che just as he was. The book, Diary of a Combatant takes you through his three-year guerrilla campaign which resulted in the overthrow of the then president Gen Fulgencio Batista and brought Fidel Castro to power. According to the publisher of the diary Che's handwriting was terrible and they had a tough time deciphering it. The Motorcycle Diaries, his memoir of a road trip through Latin America when he was 23 years old, did well commercially and was turned into a successful film.

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