Bay of Pigs

Name: Bay of Pigs
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ISBN: 9780199754250

ISBN-10: 019975425X

ISBN-13: 9780199754250

Edition: 2010

Authors: Howard Jones

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In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the openly Marxist Ché Guevara and Raúl Castro, and seizures of American-owned assets. In little more than a year, President Dwight D. Eisenhower concluded that Castro must go. In The Bay of Pigs , Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro. He deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U. S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs. Ignoring warnings from the ambassador to Cuba, the Eisenhower administration…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/25/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English