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Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior: A Firsthand Account of Atrocity
Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior A Firsthand Account of Atrocity Author:Horacio Verbitsky, Juan Mendez, Gabriel Cavallo, Esther Allen Published to coincide with the first Srgentine war crimes trials, a new edition of what Eduardo Galeano calls "the best book about the worst crimes." 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 participatio... more »n 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. Originally published as The Flight.« less