Escaping the fire
Subtitle: how an Ixil Mayan pastor led his people out of a holocaust during the Guatemalan Civil War
By: Tomás Guzaro and Terri Jacob McComb ; afterword by David Stoll
Contributors: McComb, Terri Jacob
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780292721364; 9780292722842
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exodus : August 1982; title: Son of a Mayan priest : 1960s; title: Catholicism in Ixil country : late 1960s-mid-1970s; title: The curse : 1975-1976; title: Conflict of cultures : October 1976-1977; title: Reconciliation : 1977-1978; title: Protestant growth and the guerrilla takeover : February-September 1979; title: Between two fires : October 1979-August 1980; title: Targeting the evangélicos : September 1980; title: Given a little more time : September-December 1980; title: Narrow escapes : January 1981-February 1982; title: Desperate for a way out : February-July 1982; title: The vision : July-August 1982; title: Escaping the fire : August 3-4, 1982; title: A taste of freedom : August 1982; title: Life in a refugee village : September 1982-May 1983; title: Lifting up Ixil country : June 1983-2009; title: Afterword: Tomás Guzaro in historical context