Sandinistas

[What Would Durruti Do?]

Does anyone recommend any good resources about the Sandinista conflict with the American-backed Contras? I'm especially looking for information on American involvement.

[Coggeh]

I was just about to ask someone the same thing . Got to do a history research project on it . Can anyone recommend 3 good sources?

[which doctor]

Although it mostly focuses on the role of Carlos Fonseca Amador, I would suggest Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution by Matilde Zimmerman. It's a pretty dry read though.

[Bankotsu]

Here's a documentary:

John Pilger - Nicaragua, a nation's right to survive
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3404634974860767996#

[ellipsis]

Here's a documentary:

John Pilger - Nicaragua, a nation's right to survive
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3404634974860767996#

beat me to it. great film

[x359594]

Though it doesn't deal with the US backed counter-revolution as such, Intellectual Foundations of the Nicaraguan Revolution by Donald C. Hodges is excellent background; for the history of US-Nicaraguan relations Under the Big Stick: Nicaragua and the United States Since 1948 by Karl Bermann is concise and useful.

[ellipsis]

These don't go too in depth into the nitty-gritty but I used these three books for a final paper in my central American history. Good background material and they gave me a good working knowledge of what happened in both Nicaragua and El Salvador in the mid-20th century.
Dunkerley, James. Power in the Isthmus: a political history of modern Central America. New York: Verso, 1988

Pérez-Brignoli, Héctor. A brief history of Central America. Trans. by Ricardo B. Sawrey A. and Susana Stettri de Sawrey. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1989.

Weaver, Fredrick Stiron. Inside the Volcano: the history and political economy of Central America. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.

[Rakhmetov]

Inevitable Revolutions: The United States In Central America by Dr. Walter LaFeber of Cornel University

http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Revolutions-United-Central-America/dp/0393309649/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253050902&sr=1-1