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Fidel Castro is perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times. A dictatorial pariah to some, he has become a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts have been made to get Castro to tell his own story, but only now, in the twilight of his years, has he been prepared to set out the details for the...
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Colección Imago mundi volume 47
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886 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.
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431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Draws on previously unavailable material to present a dual portrait of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara set against a backdrop of Cuba's revolutionary era, describing how their initial association of convenience was to fundamentally shape their political visions.
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367 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"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...
12) El comandante del pueblo: una novela basada en la vida de Camilo Cienfuegos y su misteriosa muerte
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xiii, 317 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Camilo Cienfuegos fue un carismático revolucionario que se hizo amigo de Fidel Castro cuando empezaron las protestas para derrocar la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista. Siempre fiel a los ideales de la Revolución, Cienfuegos luchó al lado de Fidel, Raúl y el Che Guevara, y llegó a ganarse la simpatía del pueblo cubano gracias a su humildad y franqueza. Tras ganar varias batallas, la rivalidad entre Camilo y Fidel se fue acentuando y sus ideales...
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384 pages ; 25 cm.
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"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...
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xxxvii, 538 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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"In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century -- the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis -- America President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors. Combining in-depth...
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263 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm
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"Un testimonio excepcional que pone en duda todo lo que se creía saber hasta ahora sobre la vida pública y privada de Fidel Castro. ¿Qué se sabe en realidad de Fidel Castro? ¿Cómo vive? ¿Es de verdad el hombre austero y fiel a los ideales de la revolución comunista que afirma ser? La respuesta, según Juan Reinaldo Sánchez, guardaespaldas personal del Comandante durante diecisiete años, es un rotundo no. El Líder Máximo no solo lleva una...
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Explore the inside story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. In the first major feature documentary on the subject, the film brings to life the three central characters; Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev, and explores how the world's most powerful men fell into an abyss of their own making and outlines the courage and luck it took to climb out again.
17) Cuba straits
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Doc Ford volume 22
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Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items -- high-profile collectibles -- but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret girlfriend, it's not a matter of money anymore. Garcia...
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xx, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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"An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world. Castro got his toughness from a father who survived Spain's nasty class system and colonial wars to become one of the most successful independent plantation owners in Cuba. He grew up to be full of contradictions. in prison, he showed a passion for French literature, wrote flowery love letters,...
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"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...
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