Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara

Year 1998
Pages 456

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Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara by Jorge G. Castaneda is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The copy shown here is 1998 • Random House Inc • 456 pages.

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