A definitive, powerfully writtenaccount of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America today

Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America today.

"... a valuable study of what Immerman correctly portrays as a seminal event, not just in the annals of the Cold War, but in U.S.-Latin American relations." - The Washington Monthly

"... a damning indictment of American interference abroad." - The Pittsburgh Press

"This story is much more thorough than the recent popularized account of the same events by Stephen Kinzer and Stephen Schlesinger ..." - Choice