A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura

by Eileen Markey

Book Overview

On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran military. News of the killing shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War policy in Latin America. The women themselves became symbols and martyrs, shorn of context and background...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156858573X
• ISBN13: 9781568585734
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.4"