Based on archival research, this study of Pancho Villa aims to separate myth from history. It looks at Villa's early life as an outlaw and his emergence as a na

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A " Best Book of 1998" "Library Journal selection " This is the definitive work on Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. . . . The work is exhaustively researched

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“A frequently fascinating and probably fairly accurate insight into the most controversial character of the Mexican Revolution.” —Time Martín Luis Guzmá