The Soccer War

Name: The Soccer War
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
ISBN: 0804151105

by Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Soccer War is a 1978 book by Ryszard Kapuściński, the Polish press correspondent in Africa and Latin America in the 1960s. The eponymous Soccer War erupts between the Central American Republics of Honduras and El Salvador, partially as a result of a football match between teams of the two countries. The deeper reasons for the conflict were political.

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Paula Hawkins

"It would be a tossup between "The Soccer War," by Ryszard Kapuscinski, and "In Cold Blood," by Truman Capote."

By the Book: Paula Hawkins · nytimes.com