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John Gerassi went to North Vietnam as a member of the first investigating team for the International War Crimes Tribunal set up by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. This book, first published in 1968, is the record of that visit and of the author's sympathy for the ordinary people caught up in the conflict. It is primarily intended as a historical document, and provides valuable on-the-spot records of the war as experienced in North Vietnam.

Preface -- November 1970 -- December 1970 -- January 1971 -- March 1971 -- April 1971 -- May 1971 -- October 1971 -- December 1971 -- January 1972 -- February 1972 -- March 1972 -- April 1972 -- May 1972 -- June 1972 -- October 1972 -- November 1972 -- May 1973 -- June 1973 -- November 1973 -- November 1974 -- Farewell

A biography of the man who became dictator of Cuba in 1959 after a successful revolution against Batista's military dictatorship and reorganized the country into a Communist state

US program allegedly aimed at undermining the Sandinista government; role of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Until very recently, the justification for the US bellicose policy toward Nicaragua has been its claim that the Sandinista regime was the main supplier of arms and ammunition to Salvadoran revolutionaries. But that non-justifiable charge is now abandoned. President Reagan has made it clear himself: the US aim is to remove the present government in Nicaragua, to keep up the war until the Sandinistas surrender. The fact is that official America has always cheered the dictators in Nicaragua, not the democrats