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The UnderdogsThe Underdogs
Swept up almost by accident into the Mexican Revolution, a peasant becomes a celebrated rebel general, leading his men through victory, plunder, and disillusion as the revolution loses its way. The defining novel of the Mexican Revolution.
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A lean, vivid, gunpowder-scented novel written from inside the Mexican Revolution, thrilling and disillusioned at once. The book that showed how revolutions devour their own idealism.
SettingMexico, 1910s
Mexico in the chaos of its 1910s revolution, a landscape of sierras and burning villages where peasant armies rose against tyranny, and glory, greed, and confusion rode together.