For the first time, Fidel Castro writes with candor and affection of his relationship with Ernesto Che Guevara, documenting the Argentinian-born doctor’s extraordinary bond with Cuba from the revolution’s early days to Che’s final guerilla expeditions to Africa and Bolivia.

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Castro vividly portrays Che, the man, the revolutionary and the thinker, and describes in detail his last days with Che in Cuba, giving a remarkably frank assessment of the Bolivian mission. A preface by veteran Cuban leader Jesús Montané recalls the first encounter between Guevara and Castro in Mexico in 1955. Illuminated by many newly published photos - - including the first and last of Guevara and Castro together - - This is a revealing portrait not just of its subject but of its author as well.

Ocean Press, by Fidel Castro, soft cover, 168 p.p., 1994, Glossary of people, ISBN 1-875284-15-X