"Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the figures at the center of the guerrilla uprising: Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them. The general timeline of the Cuban Revolution of 1956-1958: It was led by two of the 20th century's most iconic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; it successfully overthrew the island nation's US-backed dictator; and it quickly went awry under...

In 1962, people in the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union, seemed to be holding their breath as they stood at the precipice of nuclear war. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later recalled that he thought October 27, 1962, ""was the last Saturday I would ever see."" Packed with interesting sidebars and fascinating facts, this book transports readers back to a time of political intrigue. John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, and Nikita Khrushchev...

On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the U.S., resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her. ↵↵So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Decades later, the family is

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"For what other reason would they give up possessions, all they have known and loved from birth? To go to a new country, new language, new climate. The right answer was just to be free." Fifty-five years ago in 1965, upon Alfonso's arrival to the United States, he devoted all his spare time to exposing the truth about Fidel Castro and Communism. This historical manuscript is a first-person, true account of what the author experienced during the...

Fascinating. Complex. Notorious. The story of Fidel Castro's untold rise to world power comes vividly to life in an ambitious and revealing four-hour miniseries, FIDEL.

Lives of Men and Women Fundamental in the Last Century. Biographies of Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Churchill, Fidel Castro, Mussolini, Nasser, Nixon, Ché Guevara, Francisco Pi y Margall, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Condolezza Rice, Serrano Súñer, etc.,etc.

One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did business with agents ranging from the CIA to the Vatican to the shah of Iran. When politician Joe Kennedy gave Giancana the chance...

When Marcinkogass gbsfriend, gcs the head of the CIA, asks him to spend a little quality time in Cuba, the Rogue Warrior finds theregass no way to say no. Once there, Marcinko and company discover that Fidel Castro is on his deathbed. Which wouldngast be so bad, except that hegass planned a catastrophic surprise for the U.S. as his going-away present. The Rogue Warrior must find out the nature of that little surprise and thwart it before...

Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Salman Rushdie denouncing his fatwa, speeches have made headlines and shaped the way we see ourselves and the larger society. This title collects some of the most extraordinary speeches of the modern era.

AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT BY THE NEW YORK TIMES CORRESPONDENT-WHAT REALLY OCCURRED IN CUBA AFTER FIDEL CASTRO SEIZED POWER. In three short years Fidel Castro and his revolution have destroyed the once prosperous economy of Cuba and helped the Soviet Union establish its first armed beachhead in the Western Hemisphere. Ruby Hart Phillips, for twenty-five years the resident New York Times correspondent in Havana, maintains that Castro's takeover is a classic...