Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile's Hidden History
London: Faber & Faber, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #006079
Full black paper. vii, 280 pp. B&W map of Chile. Spine slightly tilted. Remainder mark to tail edge. Red scuffs to front pastedown. Dust jacket lightly bumped to extremities, small chips to upper corners. In October 1998, General Augusto Pinochet, former dictator of Chile, was arrested in London. He had been charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate, but over the sixteen months that Pinochet was detained, equally intriguing questions went unanswered about his links with Britain. Andy Beckett, acclaimed Guardian feature writer, offers a compound of history, investigation and travelogue that unravels this strange story.
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