History Literature / OperationMassacre

* CoupDeGrace: partially straight, Di Chiano's survives because the killers make an exception for him.
* FinalSolution: against peronism. Or gremialism. Or communism. Or poor people.

* SoleSurvivor: partially true. First, Walsh contacts someone who he thinks is the only one, but after this, he discovers seven more.

* NonFiction
* NonFictionLiterature
* {{Realpolitik}}: Aramburu's right-wing government uses terror and cold-blooded civilian murders to enforce his power, "because the peronism was a dictatorship".
* PoeticJustice: Aramburu's real life death was a similar operation, as he was kidnapped and executed after a non-judicial trial by the leftist guerrilla Montoneros by his crimes. This book was one of the proofs that Montoneros quoted.

''Operation Massacre'' (in Spanish ''Operación Masacre''), is an [[UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} Argentinian]] NonFiction novel written by Creator/RodolfoWalsh and published in 1957. It's a novelization about a series of [[KillEmAll executions]] afterwards the MilitaryCoup against Juan Perón. It's considered the first [[NonFictionLiterature non-fiction novel]] in history, dating nine years prior to Truman Capote's ''Literature/InColdBlood''. The plot takes place one year after the Coup d'Etàt, when a counter strike against the Military government has failed, and the military forces seek possible civilian rebels. The novel is the story of one of the seven survivors. He tells about the executions of José León Suárez, where he and several other men were imprisoned and shot. This ended with the deaths of five men: Nicolás Carranza, Francisco Garibotti, Carlos Alberto Lizaso, Mario Brión and Vicente Damían Rodríguez, and seven survivors.

* KillEmAll: the prisoners.

* CoupDeGrace: partially straight, Di Chiano's survives because the killers make an exeption for him.

* BodyHorror: Di Chiano was shot in the face, but he doesn't die. He never receives the CoupDeGrace. He was horrifingly disfigured in the process.

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''Operation Massacre'' (in Spanish ''Operación Masacre''), is an [[UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} Argentinian]] NonFiction novel written by Creator/RodolfoWalsh and published in 1957. It's a novelization about a series of [[KillEmAll executions]] afterwards the MilitaryCoup against Juan Perón. It's considered the first [[NonFictionLiterature non-fiction novel]] in history, dating nine years prior to Truman Capote's ''Literature/InColdBlood''. The plot takes place one year after the Coup d'Etàt, when a counter strike against the Military government has failed, and the military forces seek possible civilian rebels.
The novel is the story of one of the seven survivors. He tells about the executions of José León Suárez, where he several other men were imprisoned and shot. This ended with the deaths of five men: Nicolás Carranza, Francisco Garibotti, Carlos Alberto Lizaso, Mario Brión and Vicente Damían Rodríguez, and seven survivors.

* UrExample: It's the first Non-Fiction novel in history, as it's dated 1957. Literature/InColdBlood from Literature/TrumanCapote is from 1966, although the latter is often credited as the first one.

''Operation Massacre'' (in Spanish ''Operación Masacre''), is an [[UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} Argentinian]] NonFiction novel written by Creator/RodolfoWalsh and published in 1957. It's a novelization about a series of [[KillEmAll executions]] afterwards the MilitaryCoup against Juan Perón. It's considered the first [[NonFictionLiterature non-fiction novel]] in history, dating nine years prior to TrumanCapote's ''Literature/InColdBlood''. The plot takes place one year after the Coup d'Etàt, when a counter strike against the Military government has failed, and the military forces seek possible civilian rebels.

Operation Massacre (in Spanish ''Operación Masacre''), is an Argentinian NonFiction novel written by Creator/RodolfoWalsh and published in 1957. It's a novelization about a series of [[KillEmAll executions]] afterwards the MilitaryCoup against Perón. It's considered the first [[NonFictionLiterature non-fiction novel]] in history, dating nine years prior to Capote's Literature/InColdBlood. The plot takes place one year after the Coup d'Etàt, when a counter strike against the Military government has failed, and the military forces seek possible civilian rebels.

!!Tropes

* WouldNotShootACivilian: Subverted. ''All'' shootings were against civilian targets.

* BodyHorror: Di Chiano was shooted in the face, but he doesn't die. He never receives the CoupDeGrace. He was horrifingly disfigured, in the process.

* CoupDeGrace: partially straight, Di Chiano's survives because the killers make an exeption of him.

* GeneralRipper: The military president, Aramburu, was obsessed with kill all of the Peronist militants, or anyone that threat his government

* SoleSurvivor: partially true. First, Walsh contacts with whom he thinks is the only one, but after this, he discovers seven more.
* MilitaryCoup: Against Perón, first, and later a failed one against the Military government. This is the trigger of the shootings.

* UrExample: It's the first Non-Fiction novel in history, as it's dated in 1957. Literature/InColdBlood from Literature/TrumanCapote is from 1966, although the late is often credited as the first one.

* NoExportForYou: there was no English version until 2013 .

* OlderThanTheyThink: althoug often Literature/InColdBlood is credited as the first Non Fiction novel, this book was published nine years before.

* ComicBookAdaptation: By Francisco Solano López, no less. Also, a
[[CompressedAdaptation]] since the comic has less than 20 pages.

Operation Massacre (in Spanish ''Operación Masacre''), is an Argentinian NonFiction novel published in 1957, about a series of [[KillEmAll executions]] afterwards the MilitaryCoup against Perón. It's considered the first [[NonFictionLiterature non-fiction novel]] in history, dating nine years prior to Capote's Literature/InColdBlood. The plot takes place one year after the Coup d'Etàt, when a counter strike against the Military government has failed, and the military forces seek possible civilian rebels.