The Wind That Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution 1910-1942

Text by Anita Brenner and photographs assembled by George R. Leighton

Book Description:

Originally published in 1943 and republished in 1971, The Wind That Swept Mexico was the first book to present a broad account of that revolution in its different phases. In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs, this classic sweeps the reader along from the false peace and plenty of the Díaz era through the doomed administration of Madero, the chaotic years of Villa and Zapata, Carranza and Obregón, to the peaceful social revolution of Cárdenas and Mexico's entry into World War II.

A reviewer in 1943 wrote in Book Week, "Only 100 pages of text and 184 historical news photographs, yet this is the Mexican Revolution in its drama, its complexity and its incompleteness! One could not have seen it more closely and fully had one taken part in it, nor could one have understood as much of its essence as Anita Brenner has managed to distill out of a lifetime of living in Mexico."

My Opinion:

This is the book you want to read if you only have a couple of hours to spend learning about the Mexican Revolution. If you only have a few minutes, look at the pictures and read the captions. The complete story is there.