{"product_id":"blood-on-the-border-a-memoir-of-the-contra-war-paperback-softback-9780806153841","title":"Blood on the Border; A Memoir of the Contra War (Paperback \/ softback) 9780806153841","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlood on the Border\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Memoir of the Contra War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Author), Margaret Randall (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780806153841\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 August 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is an impressive, astounding, and truthful historical document. . . . Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz tells a story that is moving, profoundly human, and enlightening.\"\"  - Gioconda Belli, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Country under My Skin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Captures a messy snapshot of our country and [Dunbar-Ortiz's] own life. A living embodiment of the philosophy 'the personal is poltical,' she navigates a dense narrative river through her early, youthful enthusiasm for social change, moving upstream toward a hard-edged and realistic perception of the undertows of political waters . . . she reveals an unbowed human spirit - a major ingredient in victory.\"\"  - Jewelle Gomez, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gilda Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Dunbar-Ortiz is clearly a memoirist of great skills and even greater heart. She's a force of nature on the page and off.\"\"  - Dave Eggers, author of \u003ci\u003eA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHuman rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as \"\"a force of nature on the page and off.\"\" That force is fully present in \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Border\u003c\/i\u003e, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Border\u003c\/i\u003e is Dunbar-Ortiz's firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the United States against the people of Nicaragua.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With the 1981 bombing of a Nicaraguan plane in Mexico City - a plane Dunbar-Ortiz herself would have been on if not for a delay - the US-backed Contras (short for \u003ci\u003elos contrarrevolucionarios\u003c\/i\u003e) launched a major offensive against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, which the Reagan administration labeled as communist. While her rich political analysis of the US-Nicaraguan relationship bears the mark of a trained historian, Dunbar-Ortiz also writes from her perspective as an intrepid activist who spent months at a time throughout the 1980s in the war-torn country, especially in the remote northeastern region, where the Indigenous Miskitu people were relentlessly assailed and nearly wiped out by CIA-trained Contra mercenaries. She makes painfully clear the connections between what many US Americans today remember only vaguely as the Iran-Contra \"\"affair\"\" and ongoing US aggression in the Americas, the Middle East, and around the world - connections made even more explicit in a new afterword written for this edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A compelling, important, and sobering story on its own, \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Border\u003c\/i\u003e offers a deeply informed, closely observed, and heartfelt view of history in the making.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551742783768,"sku":"9780806153841","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/blood-on-the-border-a-memoir-of-the-contra-war-paperback-softback-9780806153841","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}