The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes

by Miguel La Serna and Orin Starn

Book Overview

On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square. The lone man arrested the next morning later swore allegiance to a group called Shining Path. The tale of how this ferocious group of guerrilla insurgents launched a decade-long reign of terror,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393292800
• ISBN13: 9780393292800
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"