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A gripping and terrifying account of Timerman's experiences at the mercy of Argentina's Peronist regime of the late 1970's and an excellent analysis of the methodology behind totalitarian regimes. As a well respected, professional journalist in Buenos Aires, he was editor of the major newspaper La Opinión - until he was kidnapped by the military for publishing articles critical of their terrorist tactics. He details how as a political prisoner, and as a Jew, he was held and tortured by his military captors. Timerman also gives a penetrating insight into the mindset of his captors and of a society that tried to ignore what was happening. Timerman's also describes his own personal methods of coping with the traumatic torture, and an existence without tenderness and love. His words ring loud and stay in the mind long after you finish reading this horrific account of actual events in 1970s Argentina.