The Captains' Coup by Wilfred Burchett

The first English edition of legendary journalist Wilfred Burchett’s eye-witness reporting on the bloodless Portuguese military coup and “Carnation Revolution” of 1974-1975 Legendary journalist Wilfred Burchett’s eyewitness account of the military coup d’étatthat ended authoritarian dictatorship and established democracy in Portugal. The Captains’ Coup offers an insightful, poignant narrative of events during the first year following the near-bloodless left-wing “Carnation Revolution” of April 25, 1974 that overthrew a nearly five-decade-long fascistic dictatorship led by António Salazar, and established democracy in Portugal. This first-ever English edition marks the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution.

Wilfred Graham Burchett (16 September 1911 – 27 September 1983) was an Australian journalist known for being the first western journalist to report from Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb, and for his reporting from "the other side" during the wars in Korea and Vietnam. **Source**: [Wilfred Burchett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Burchett) on Wikipedia.

The Captains' Coup

From Dictatorship to Democracy in Portugal (1974-1976)