In the span of a decade, Montoneros went from establishing itself as the most powerful urban guerrilla group in the Americas to ceasing to exist. How did this happen? From the moment it burst onto the scene with the kidnapping and murder of Aramburu until its disintegration in the early 1980s, it marked an era that continues to raise questions, spark controversy, and elicit conflicting interpretations.

After three books focused on specific episodes—Born, Aramburu, and Born y Quieto—María O’Donnell traces in this work the full arc of the organization that came to become a mass movement and even came close to seizing power.

Photographs, documents, and graphic testimonies resulting from formidable research reveal each episode in the armed group’s trajectory and place it within the context of the era in Argentina and Latin America.

Montoneros, a visual history allows readers to follow, step by step, the path from its heyday to its defeat.