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Dossier Secreto: Argentina's Desaparecidos and the Myth of the "Dirty War"

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This is a book that will help put into perspective the horrendous years of Argentina's military war against its own citizens. Don't read it in the evening, the horrors recounted will take your sleep away.

Those who lived in Argentina were kept in the dark about the horrors that were committed in our own neighborhoods. I remember corpses being discovered in the same playground I would take my children on Sundays, but I did not know that those were not a result of "battles" but people who had been killed after torture and put in place to make citizens think that a dirty war was being fought. There was no dirty war, but a generation annihilated, suppressed at the hands of a greedy military playing games with people's lives.

Nobody who lived during that time will ever be completely free of that nightmare that lasted years, but this book helps put things in perspective. It is a tough read, and unless you have a good reason to read it, don't try.

I was lucky enough to leave Argentina, but those 30,000 plus that disappeared should not being forgotten. As we know, humanity tends to forget too quickly and repeat past mistakes.

I tried to read online this weak book, here in Brazil.
I read the good book "Guerrillas and Generals" by Paul H. Lewis before to try to read, this weak book and Lewis's book is far better, than this weak book.
This book is very biased and 100% against Argentine Militaries.
This book has this table of content:
Prologue 1
PART 3
The Sad Privilege of Being Argentine 9
Peron and Argentina's Golden Era 1930-1955 23
Barracks Politics 1956-1963 38
Winds of Discontent 1963-1969 48
Aramburu's Murder 60
Armed Politics 1970-1972 68
Peron Returns 1973 82
Lopez Rega - Rasputin of the Pampas 103
A Rumor of War 124
Counterterror 142
The Generals Plot a Comeback 1975-1976 157
Repression in the Factories 175
The Church of the People 184
The Cultural War 194
The Secret Camps 205
A Society of Fear 214
The Junta Takes Charge 1976 223
The Guerrillas and the Agony of Defeat 1976 233
The Price of Power 1976 241
Jimmy Carter and the Human Rights Revolution 1977 250
Argentinas Killing Fields 1978-1980 276
Alfonsin and Argentina's Return to Civility 1981-1989 295
Epilogue 315
Acronyms 325
Bibliography 376
About the Book and Author 387