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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue

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Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant women tortured, 30,000 individuals “disappeared”–these were the horrors of Argentina’s Dirty War. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Finalist for the L.L. Winship / PEN New England Award in 1998, A Lexicon of Terror is a sensitive and unflinching account of the sadism, paranoia, and deception the military junta unleashed at the Argentine people from 1976 to 1983.

This up to date edition includes a new epilogue that chronicles major political, legal, and social developments in Argentina for the reason that book’s initial publication. It also continues the stories of the individuals involved within the Dirty War, including the torturers, kidnappers and murderers formerly granted immunity under now dissolved amnesty laws. Moreover, Feitlowitz discusses investigations launched within the intervening years that have indicated that the network of torture centers, concentration camps, and other operations liable for the “desaparecidas” was once more widespread than prior to now thought. A Lexicon of Terror vividly evokes this shocking era and tells of the iconic effects it has left at the Argentine culture.

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