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Originally published as The Flight
Electrifying.
A journalistic bombshell.
A chilling and courageous work of journalism.
Neither Hannah Arendt nor Horacio Verbitsky will allow us to ignore what human beings are capable of doing to each other.
Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior
A Firsthand Account of Atrocity
paperback
$14.95 / £9.99
Published to coincide with the first Argentine war crimes trials, a new edition of what Eduardo Galeano calls “the best book about the worst crimes”
"This book caused a furor . . . in Argentina, where at least nine thousand of the “disappeared” remain unaccounted for, but its lessons about officially sanctioned atrocities are universal."
—The New Yorker
Retired navy officer Adolfo Scilingo was the first man ever to break the Argentine military’s pact of silence, stunning his compatriots and the world by openly confessing his participation in the hideous practice of pushing live political dissidents out of airplanes during Argentina’s dirty war.
Available for the first time in paperback, with a new introduction by Judge Gabriel Cavallo on the upcoming military trials and a new epilogue by the author, Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior includes the complete text of Scilingo’s confession in the form of interviews given to Argentina’s best-known investigative journalist, Horacio Verbitsky, along with an afterword by Juan Méndez, putting these events in the context of the dirty war.
Horacio Verbitsky is Argentina’s leading investigative journalist, winner of the 1995 Latin American Studies Association Media Award, and author of a dozen books. He also presides over Argentina’s main human rights organization, the Center for Legal and Social Studies. He lives in Buenos Aires.
Spring 2005
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 232 pages
978-1-56584-985-3
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