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A Glimpse of the "Real" Pancho Villa,
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This review is from: Memoirs of Pancho Villa (Textbook Binding)
Mr. Guzman assembled documents from Villa's secretaries and constructed this memoir of the man post-mortem. Consequently, it is not blessed with numerous footnotes and other things beloved by historians. Mr. Guzman, a novelist of much fame in Mexico, also states that he has "filled-in-the-blanks" where documentation was not available to support his "history". In spite of these drawbacks, this appears to be a very accurate portayal of the events of the Mexican Revolution in which Villa played such a great part. The accounts of the battles of the Division of the North can be checked against other Spanish-language biographies of the era, and compare favorably with the recollections of other participants. Unfortunately, the memoir covers only the years up to 1915, leaving Villa's last 8 years of life unaccounted for. Even so, this book is a valuable source for the researcher interested in the career of the Division of the North, and in the political squabbles of Villa and Carranza.
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Memoirs of Pancho Villa by Martín Luis Guzmán (Textbook Binding - Jan. 2000)
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