Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956-1967. PAUL J. DOSAL: University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania StateUniversity Press, 2003.

Abstract

Che, morethan anyone, including Fidel, guided the transformation of the rag-tag band that survived the Granma landing at Playa las Coloradas and the subsequent massacre at Alegría del Pío in late November 1956, into "the most accomplished guerrilla army in 20^th century Latin America." It was Che who led the guerrillas' victorious two-year campaign against 40,000 U.S.-equipped troops supported by formidable air and naval power.