''Tania, the Woman Che Guevara Loved'' is the English translation of a book by José Antonio Friedl Zapata, about

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(November 19, 1937 – August 31, 1967), better known as ''Tania'' or ''Tania the Guerrilla'', who was a

communist Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, di ...

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and

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who played a prominent role in the

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after the

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and in various

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n revolutionary movements. She was the only woman to fight alongside

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rebels under the command of

Che Guevara Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14th May 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentines, Argentine Communist revolution, Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, Guerrilla warfare, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and Military theory, military theorist. A majo ...

. It was published first in German as ''Tania : die Frau, die Che Guevera liebte'' in 1997, and then in Spanish as ''Tania la guerrillera : la enigmática espía a la sombra del Che''Santafé de Bogotá, D.C., Colombia : Planeta, in 1999 .

References

{{Reflist 1997 non-fiction books Books about Che Guevara