For the first time, Fidel Castro writes with candor and affection of his relationship with Ernesto Che Guevara, documenting the Argentine-born doctor?s extraordinary bond with Cuba from the revolution?s early days to Che?s final guerilla expeditions to Africa and Bolivia.

Castro vividly portrays Che, the man, the revolutionary and the thinker, and describes in detail his last days with Che in Cuba, giving a remarkably frank assessment of the Bolivian mission.

A preface by veteran Cuban leader Jesús Montané recalls the first encounter between Guevara and Castro in Mexico in 1955.

Illuminated by many newly published photos ? including the first and last of Guevara and Castro together ? this is a revealing portrait not just of its subject but of its author as well.