I first picked up Fidel and Che about six months ago in a bookshop. At the time, looking through it in the store, I didn't think it was worth either my time or my money.
However, a few months later, I have been proven quite wrong. Having seen it once again, in my local library, I decided to take a chance on it. And I'm glad that I did so.
Fidel and Che purports itself to be a biography of the two men: how they grew up,how they met, how their friendship blossomed etc. But it is more than that. It reads like no other biography I have read before. In fact, at times, it doesn't even feel like a biography: it feels like a marvellous piece of fiction, so well is it written.
This is even more surprising than it should be considering the author is a university lecturer. You might expect it to read like a history essay; long, boring and laborious. But it doesn't, and the author, Simon Reid-Henry, deserves much credit for this.
Were all historical biographies written as well, the subject might become more popular. But for now, I'm urging you to read this revolutionary piece of work. I promise that you won't be disappointed.
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