Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua is a 1991 book by Stephen Kinzer, an American author and The New York Times foreign correspondent who reported from Nicaragua during the Sandinista-Contras civil war period of the 1980s. Publishing information Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua, by Stephen Kinzer, Putnam Publishing Group, 1991. (reprinted in 2007 by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University) Books about Nicaragua Non-fiction books about war Books by Stephen Kinzer 1991 non-fiction books