Category: Cuba

Por que...cuentos negros de cuba

Price: $88.97 USD

Publisher: Spain, : 1972

Seller ID: 63031

Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued

(Written in Spanish) Why black tales of Cuba "Passionate about the imaginary universe of the different African cultures in Cuba, Lydia Cabrera began publishing an extensive research work in Paris. Contes Négres de Cuba (1936), translated by Francis de Miomandre, embraced the powerful current that African cultures had awakened in Europe at the hands of Leo Frobenius, Blaise Cendrars and Paul Morand, among others. Initially conceived as a series of stories to alleviate the illness of her friend Teresa de la Parra, the book immediately attracted critical attention. Returning to Cuba in 1939, Lydi...
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Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas

By: Castro, Fidel & Jose Ramon Fernandez

Price: $11.97 USD

Publisher: New York, Pathfinder : 2001

Seller ID: 63033

ISBN-13: 9780873489256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Stated first edition.Hardcover with dust in Mylar cover. In April 1961, Cuba?s revolutionary armed forces defeated a U.S.-organized invasion by 1,500 mercenaries. In the process, the Cuban people set an example for workers, farmers, and youth the world over that with political consciousness, class solidarity, courage, and revolutionary leadership, one can stand up to enormous might and seemingly insurmountable odds?and win. Foreword by Jack Barnes, 20-page photo section and other photos, maps, charts, chronology, glossary, further reading, index. Tracking provided free. ; Photographs; 8.2 X 5....
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The Taming of Fidel Castro

By: Halperin, Maurice

Price: $13.97 USD

Publisher: Berkley, Ca, Univ of California Pr : 1981

Seller ID: 62720

ISBN-13: 9780520041844

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

First edition. Dust in mylar. Price clipped. Maurice Hyman Halperin (March 3, 1906 ? February 9, 1995) was an American writer, professor, diplomat, and accused Soviet spy; B&W Illustrations; 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 345 pages
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Insider My Hidden Life As a Revolutionary in Cuba

By: Llovio-Menendez, Jose Luis

Price: $7.97 USD

Publisher: Bantam : 1988

Seller ID: 62940

ISBN-13: 9780553051148

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Book and dust look new, never read. A once-high ranking Cuban government offical now living in the United States paints a vivid portrait of the Cuban people, their lives under Castro's rule, and his survival and escape from his native country. "Having fought against Batista, Llovio-Menendez returned from France to Cuba to find Communism replacing the ideals of the revolution, and for 17 years had to sing the party tune before he could engineer escape. As a former government insider, he records the failure of the "New Man" and reports on the corruption, jealousy, and incompetence of the new el...
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Castro's Final Hour The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba

By: Oppenheimer, Andres

Price: $8.97 USD

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 1992

Seller ID: 62712

ISBN-13: 9780671728731

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

"Castro's Final Hour" opens with the 1989 executions of four high-ranking Cuban military officers of which two stood out among the rest: Col. Antonio de La Guardia and Division General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez. According to Oppenheimer, these executions may have well marked the disillusionment of the Cuban people with their revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro. The executions may have also precipitated Cuba's disintegration in the eyes of the world community. Oppenheimer writes of the decline of Cuba's relations with its ideological allies in Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Angola, German...
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Category: Cuba

Por que...cuentos negros de cuba

Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas

The Taming of Fidel Castro

Insider My Hidden Life As a Revolutionary in Cuba

Castro's Final Hour The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba