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Part diary and part reportage. The Soccer Waris a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches – searing first hand account of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life during war. The Soccer War is singular work of journalism.