Insurgent Mexico

My great great grandfather wrote this book. He was a famous war journalist. This one is about time he spent in Mexico with Pancho Villa and his gang, during the revoultion in the early 1900s. The other well-known book of his is "Ten Days that Shook the World," --about the russian revolution.He was a......more

This is a tough book to rate fairly on a five star scale, especially without resort to half-stars. Reed writes lyrical, detailed paeans to the land and people of northern mexico and paints vivid portraits of Pancho Villa, Venustiano Carranza, and a multitude of other people he met during his infiltr......more

Sort of an odd book. This is not really a history of the Mexican Revolution in any sense; rather it is a series of reports filed by John Reed in his capacity as a journalist attached to Pancho Villa's Division of the North in early 1914. Reading it, you will not get much of an understanding of the o......more