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Author: L. & L. Meier Publisher: ISBN: 9781735313702 Category : Languages : en Pages : 358
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Doctor Luis Barreras, nicknamed "Wichi," encounters brutality following Batista's 1952 coup. While practicing hematology and raising three children in suburban Havana, he attempts to shield them from growing political unrest and violence that culminate in a Revolution with Fidel Castro seizing power in 1959. Religious persecution, loss of freedom, senseless killings, and government takeover of his medical practice make matters intolerable for Barreras. "If Batista was a canker sore, Fidel is the plague." How will he and his family endure the affliction?KILLING MY CUBA is a historical fiction novel that features the life and customs of the middle-class Barreras family, their relatives, and friends during 1949-1961. An undertone of the story is the foreboding prediction of Cuba's future Wichi hears early in the book, and it continues to prey on his mind. As his medical practice dwindles, his personal involvement in the horrific consequences of the Cuban Revolution increases.
Author: L. & L. Meier Publisher: ISBN: 9781735313702 Category : Languages : en Pages : 358
Book Description
Doctor Luis Barreras, nicknamed "Wichi," encounters brutality following Batista's 1952 coup. While practicing hematology and raising three children in suburban Havana, he attempts to shield them from growing political unrest and violence that culminate in a Revolution with Fidel Castro seizing power in 1959. Religious persecution, loss of freedom, senseless killings, and government takeover of his medical practice make matters intolerable for Barreras. "If Batista was a canker sore, Fidel is the plague." How will he and his family endure the affliction?KILLING MY CUBA is a historical fiction novel that features the life and customs of the middle-class Barreras family, their relatives, and friends during 1949-1961. An undertone of the story is the foreboding prediction of Cuba's future Wichi hears early in the book, and it continues to prey on his mind. As his medical practice dwindles, his personal involvement in the horrific consequences of the Cuban Revolution increases.
Author: Fabián Escalante Font Publisher: Ocean Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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First ever publication of the declassified Cuban report into the Kennedy assassination, instigated at the request of the US government. Fabian Escalante, director of Cuba's investigation, describes how Cuban units infiltrating anti-Castro groups in Miami inadvertantly uncovered a conspiracy against President Kennedy among those who had felt betrayed by the Bay of Pigs - Cuban exiles, the Mafia and the CIA.
Author: Ada Ferrer Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501154575 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 436
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington—Barack Obama’s opening to the island, Donald Trump’s reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden—have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an “important” (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba; “readers will close [this] fascinating book with a sense of hope” (The Economist). Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States—as well as the author’s own extensive travel to the island over the same period—this is a stunning and monumental account like no other.
Author: Chanel Cleeton Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0451490878 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
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Instant New York Times bestseller! In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez—her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics and the perils of a forbidden affair with a powerful man driven by ambitions of his own. When the ever-changing tides of history threaten everything she has fought for, she must make a choice between her past and future—but the wrong move could cost Beatriz everything—not just the island she loves, but also the man who has stolen her heart...
Author: Michael Ratner Publisher: OR Books ISBN: 1935928503 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 204
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In compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world's most storied revolutionary: Ernesto Che Guevara.
Author: Rachel Kushner Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 141656103X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 339
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Coming of age in mid-1950s Cuba where the local sugar and nickel production are controlled by American interests, Everly Lederer and KC Stites observe the indulgences and betrayals of the adult world and are swept up by the political underground and the revolt led by Fidel and Raul Castro. 75,000 first printing.
Author: Fabián Escalante Font Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 252
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Cuba's former counterintelligence chief reviews more than 600 CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro - a project code-named Executive Action. Although melodramatic and at times almost comical, the plans were both drawn up in deadly earnest and entirely unconstitutional, as subsequent US government enquiries concluded, including the 1975 Commission headed by Senator Frank Church.
Author: Chanel Cleeton Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593098870 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 385
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"At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in ... Chanel Cleeton's ... novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman--Evangelina Cisneros--who changed the course of history"--
Author: L. & L. Meier
Author: L. & L. Meier
Author: Cristina Garcia
Author: Fabián Escalante Font
Author: Lawrence Block
Author: Ada Ferrer
Author: Chanel Cleeton
Author: Michael Ratner
Author: Rachel Kushner
Author: Fabián Escalante Font
Author: Chanel Cleeton