English copyright © 2024 Todd Chretien
Copyright © 2006 Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Copyright © 2006 Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V.
Copyright @ 2020 Latin American Rights Agency—Grupo Planeta

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library of congress cataloging-in-publication data

Names: Taibo, Paco Ignacio, II, 1949- author. | Chretien, Todd, translator.

Title: Pancho Villa : a revolutionary life / Paco Ignacio Taibo II ; translated by Todd Chretien.

Other titles: Pancho Villa. English

Description: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2024] | Translation of: Pancho Villa : una biografia narrativa.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021055704 | ISBN 9781644212219 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781644212226 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Villa, Pancho, 1878-1923. | Revolutionaries--Mexico--Biography. | Generals--Mexico--Biography. | Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920.

Classification: LCC F1234.V63 T3513 2022 | DDC 972.08/16092 [B]--dc23/eng/20220126

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021055704

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cover photo: General Francisco “Pancho” Villa on horseback during the Battle of Ojinaga in Chihuahua, Mexico, January 1914. The photo was taken by a Mutual Film Co. photographer for use as a promotional still for the silent film The Life of General Villa.

Page ii photo
Pancho Villa leading troops on horseback during the Mexican revolution, 1914.