About the book: 1982 / The book offered to the reader by Chilean journalists Elisabeth Reimann and Fernando Rivas Sanchez examines the Chilean armed forces and their role in Chilean political process. It must be said that the underestimation by the left forces of Chile of the class character of the army as an institution of the bourgeois state, guarding the interests of this state, was one of those negative moments in the development of the Chilean revolution, which contributed to a certain extent to the success of the counter-revolution.