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The soccer war

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Vintage Books, Feb 4, 1992 - 234 pages
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life during war. The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.

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Review: The Soccer War. Ryszard Kapuscinski

User Review  - Ellen - Goodreads

So I haven't actually read this book but did read another one by this author that Goodreads does not list. "The Other" which was an astonishing view of the world from someone who grew up behind the ... Read full review

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This book holds a mirror to the life of one who has seen it all. It is a mixture of reportage, biography and reflection. The writing is bittersweet without being sentimental and the tone is moral but ... Read full review

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Contents

THE HOTEL METROPOL
11
FROM THE STREETS OF HARLEM
23
PLAN FOR A BOOK THAT COULD HAVE
39
Copyright

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I feel like I could have inserted "music" for "soccer" and The Soccer War could have been one of my stories...only I could never have told it as compelling ...
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2nd Law: The Soccer War
From its modest beginning in Accra the year after Ghana became the first African colony to gain independence from Britain , The Soccer War seamlessly jumps ...
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The Soccer War 1969 - Kapuscinski | libcom.org
The soccer war lasted one hundred hours. Its victims: 6000 dead, more than 12000 wounded. Fifty thousand people lost their homes and fields. ...
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World Hum | Travel | No. 4: “The Soccer War” by Ryszard Kapuściński
The tales are mythic, but it is his eye for the details of life that give The Soccer War its richness. “The so-called exotic has never fascinated me,” he ...
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Football War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Soccer War is the catchy nickname that has been given to the 1969 war that broke out between the Central American countries of Honduras and El Salvador. ...
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Biblioteca Personal: The Soccer War por Ryszard Kapuscinski
El Kapuscinski de The Soccer War es un monje literario, un tipo dispuesto a dar la vida por un cuento. Y menos mal que sobrevive los infiernos que cuenta en ...
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TRANSITION ~ In Focus A POLE APART Discussed in this essay The Soccer War, Ryszard Kapuscinski, New York: Alfred A. Knopf William Boyd The Soccer War broke ...
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About the author (1992)

Born in Pinsk (in what is now Belarus), the celebrated Polish foreign correspondent Ryszard Kapuscinski is the author of, among other titles, Shah of Shahs, Imperium, Shadow of the Sun, The Other and the memoir Travels with Herodotus. His books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. He died in 2007.

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TitleThe soccer war
Vintage International
AuthorRyszard Kapuściński
Editionreprint
PublisherVintage Books, 1992
ISBN0679738053, 9780679738053
Length234 pages
  
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