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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408854761 | ISBN 10: 1408854767
On 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, Latin America's first democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d'etat. Early that morning the phone lines to Allende's office were cut, army officers loyal to t ... more
View book details£14.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780955432217 | ISBN 10: 0955432219
Chile has long been a centre for radical propaganda painting. As early as 1940 leading Mexican and Chilean artists, including David Alfaro Siqueiros, Fernando Marcos and Gregorio de la Fuente, were painting murals in Chile. Today, Latin American stre ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780285648111 | ISBN 10: 028564811x
Not only was Pablo Neruda one of the twentieth century's greatest poets but his life was an integral part of the history of the century. Pablo Neruda was born the son of a railway-worker and Memoirs opens with a lyrical evocation of his childhood in ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007163106 | ISBN 10: 000716310x
Exploring the events of her life and the country in which she lived until Pinochet's military coup, Isabel Allende takes us on a highly personal tour through Chile, bringing it to life: a place of love charms and ghosts; of grandparents and great-gra ... more
View book details£10.00 audiobook on CD (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780972742238 | ISBN 10: 0972742239
A documentary and audio reflection on the September 11, 1973 military coup against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. It features the voices of historic participants - including Isabel Allende, Ariel Dorfman, Isabel Letelier, ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780571215478 | ISBN 10: 0571215475
In October 1998, the erstwhile Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London and charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. But over the sixteen months that Pinochet was detained, intriguing questions went unanswered abo ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781551641928 | ISBN 10: 1551641925
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and Hitler's subsequent declaration of war upon the United States, Chile's reluctance to sever diplomatic ties with Nazi Germany allowed it to maximize its opportunities there, influencing Chilean politics, ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781859843604 | ISBN 10: 1859843603
Marc Cooper was a translator working for the Chilean President when Allende was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet in 1973. In this brief, compelling memoir he recalls his escape from the tightening grip of the junta and his subsequent return visits to a ... more
View book details£17.95 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781899365418 | ISBN 10: 1899365419
Late one Friday night in October 1998, officers of Scotland Yard arrested General Augusto Pinochet, dictator of Chile for 17 years, on charges of torture and conspiracy to murder. The arrest marked the first time a former head of state had been detai ... more
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