Historians, what are some good introductory readings on the Guatemalan civil war?

by KittenMittonz69
TheKodachromeMethod

Walter LaFeber's Inevitable Revolutions is an entertaining book that covers the whole region and Bitter Fruit is a decent book on the overthrow of Arbenz if you want some context to the civil war. Might be decent starting points for you. There's also Bishop Gerardi's report Guatemala: Nunca Mas.

iwinagin

To get you started check out the book list. The link is for Latin America during the cold war period but I encourage you to browse some of the other sections of the book list as good books sometimes fit many different categories.

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Greg Grandin's book Empires Workshop looks at it in a hemispheric lens

greatbrokenpromise

Piero Gleijeses' Shattered Hope is the best you can get on the background to what would become the latter-half of the century's civil war. One of the earliest books I read in my studies and still one of the best, most diligently researched.