Maximo Castillo and the Mexican Revolution

Offers the first English-language translation of the memoirs of General Maximo Castillo of Chihuahua, a pivotal figure in the civil war that consumed Mexico between 1910 and 1920. Castillo's role in the Mexican Revolution, in which he emerged as an influential leader, was largely forgotten by history until the discovery of his memoirs.

Jesús Vargas Valdes is research professor of history at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau is associate professor in the Department of Languages and Culture Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.