01873cam a2200289 i 4500 545764500 TxAuBib 021120|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780786710881 paperback 0786710888 paperback (OCoLC)8488 CMI eng CMI AFU rda TxAuBib rda McLynn, Frank. Villa and Zapata : a history of the Mexican Revolution / Frank McLynn. First Carroll & Graf trade paperback edition. New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002. [Berkeley, California : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2000. 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-439) and index. Villa and Zapata vividly chronicles the decade of bloody events that followed the eruption of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and made legends of the rebels Francisco "Pancho" Villa and Emiliano Zapata. Mexico's was the first massive social revolution of the twentieth century, visiting economic, cultural, and racial strife on a country already exploited by oppressive officials and crippled by poverty, but also offering hope to its people. The ruthless Villa and his army of ex-cowboys in the north and Zapata, recruiting his infantry from the sugar plantations of the south, successfully waged a devastating war on two fronts and brought down a string of autocrats in Mexico City. But the two men failed to make common cause and ultimately fell victim to intrigues more treacherous than their own. Villa, Pancho 1878-1923. Zapata, Emiliano 1879-1919. Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920.