g E-. » f ' ' ' . . - b i- ■ c • He Who Rides the Tiger He Who Rides the Tiger The Story of an Asian Guerrilla Leader LUIS TARUC FOREWORD BY DOUGLAS HYDE FREDERICK A. PRAEGER, Publishers New York • Washington • London FREDERICK A. PRAEGER, Publishers 111 Fourth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003, U.S.A. 77-79 Charlotte Street, London W.l, England Published in the United States of America in 1967 by Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., Publishers © 1967 by Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-20494 Printed in the United States of America Contents Foreword by Douglas Hyde vii Prologue 3 . 1 A Revolutionary Is Born 9 . 2 Life in the Hills 36 . 3 The Cancer 54 . 4 A Dream Come True 63 5. A “Revolution” That Failed 67 . 6 “For a Long and Bitter Struggle” 100 7. More Errors 120 . 8 Surrender i37 . 9 The Godless Are Loveless 148 . 10 The Fight for Survival 138 . 11 Self-Re-evaluation 166 . 12 Born Again 173 . 13 Peasant Problems 181