| #2204382 in Books | Chiringa Inc | 2010-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.98 x.74 x9.02l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 330 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Maybe the Best Insider View of the Mexican Revolution|By Alan Conrad|Think of this - a young Swedish man leaves home, spends 3 years in the merchant navy, finds himself in the British Army in South Africa fighting the Zulus, then fighting Dutch settlers in the Boer war, joins the American army in the Phillipines during the Spanish-American war, gets involved in the Boxer rebel
There is a small god-forsaken truck-stop between El Paso and Chihuahua in Mexico called El Sueco - The Swede. The name was given by Pancho Villa, in the same way as he had named other places in Mexico after his comrades in arms, this one for Ivor Thord-Gray, author of “Gringo Rebel”, who joined the Mexican revolutionaries 1913-1914. “Gringo Rebel” is Thord-Gray’s account of his experience in the Mexican Revolution, and of the close bond he...
You easily download any file type for your device.Gringo Rebel | Ivor Thord-Gray.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
