Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution

A stirring, authoritative account of the Mexican Revolution, told through the lives of its infamous rebel-outlaws: Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata

Villa and Zapata vividly chronicles the decade of bloody events that followed the eruption of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and made legends of the rebels Francisco Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. Mexico's was the first massive social revolution of the twentieth century, visiting economic, cultural, and racial strife on a country already exploited by oppressive officials and crippled by poverty, but also offering hope to its people. The ruthless Villa and his army of ex-cowboys in the north and Zapata, recruiting his infantry from the sugar plantations of the south, successfully waged a devastating war on two fronts and brought down a string of autocrats in Mexico City. But the two men failed to make common cause and ultimately fell victim to intrigues more treacherous than their own.

Author: Frank McLynn
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 08/15/2002
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.08w x 1.32d
ISBN13: 9780786710881
ISBN10: 0786710888
BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America | Mexico
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | Hispanic & Latino

About the Author
Frank McLynn is a highly regarded historian and the author of more than twenty critically acclaimed biographies, including Marcus Aurelius and Richard & John. A graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, and London University, where he obtained his doctorate, he lives and writes in England.