Revisionist history of Mexican revolution and subsequent rebellion and civil war that eventually culminated in assassination of Emiliano Zapata in 1919. This is last in author's four-volume historical series about Mexican revolution (first three, published by same press, were La irrupción zapatista, 1911 (1997); La revolución del sur, 1912-1914 (2005); and Ejército Libertador, 1915 (2013).