Kinzer’s book is widely regarded as one of the best histories of Nicaragua generally and of the Sandinista-Contra civil war specifically. Kinzer lived in Nicaragua during its tumultuous and horrific civil war, book ended with the Sandinistas ousting the brutal Somoza dictators in 1979 and the peace treaty brokered by Costa Rica in 1987. Blood of Brothers is history filtered through memoir, narrated by being Stephen Kinzer, formerly an NYT bureau chief stationed in Nicaragua. Although Nicaragua is important to me for family reasons (my brother has lived there for the last 5 years), the more I learn about its history the more I think everyone- particularly Americans- would find it fascinating and should be learning about it.
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