An explosive, unfamiliar combination of an utterly intransigent revolutionary <i>ethics</i> and an extraordinarily detailed and concrete <i>technics</i> of insurrection.
New Left Review
Far from losing himself in the thicket of erudition, Debray knows how to to touch on the essential.
Le Monde
From beginning to end, Régis Debray's demonstration is dazzling.
Lire
A writer of distinction
- Jeremy Harding, London Review of Books
a primer for guerrilla insurrection
wired.com
The year it was published, Debray was convicted of having been part of Guevara's guerrilla group and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was released in 1970, following an international campaign, which included appeals by Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, General Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul VI.