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Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever--with CIA agents, mob hitmen, "kompromat" sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba's Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind up murdered themselves...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Cuban Intelligence Service Colonel Maria Leon is called to the bedside of the dying Fidel Castro. She is his illegitimate daughter but has never been acknowledged by her father until now. Castro makes her promise to contact the legendary former Director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey to help her on a mysterious quest to find Cibola, the fabled seven cities of Gold. As the Cuban government unravels, Leon has to use every means at her disposal just to find...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Description
"Based on exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro, his sister, his inner circle, the family of Elián González, and the notorious fugitive from justice and CIA-trained assassin Luis Posada, Cuba Confidential is a gripping account of the family feuds that lie at the heart of the forty-year standoff between Miami and Havana, pitting brother against sister and father against son." -- Publisher's description
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1959, Fidel Castro took control of the Cuban government and became its new leader. Fidel Castro: Cuban Revolutionary Leader explores the early life of Castro and his rise to power. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"Mommy, mommy, call him. Tell him to come here right away. I have so many things to tell him!"
I had a ton of things to tell him. I wanted him to find a solution to all the shortages of clothes; of meat, so it would again be distributed through the ration books.
I also wanted to ask him to give our Christmas back. And to come live with us. I wanted to let him know how much we really needed him...
Fidel didn't answer my letter. I kept writing him...
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionized the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. New York City, September 1960. In this unforgettable slice of modern history, Simon Hall reveals how these ten days were a foundational moment in the trajectory of the Cold War, a turning point in the history of anti-colonial struggle, and a launching pad for the social, cultural and political tumult of the decade...
Author
Publisher
Bancroft Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate. Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that Robert Kennedy was personally supervising groups plotting against the Cuban leader. Filled with rage and a sense of destiny, Oswald went to the Cuban...
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"As a U.S.-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Mark Frank has observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the Soviet bloc, the great depression of the 1990s, the stepping aside of Fidel Castro, and the reforms now being devised by his brother. In Cuban Revelations, Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century, the start of a new and dramatic...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba." --
