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The Cuban missile crisis October 1962

the U.S. and Russia face a nuclear showdown
1972
Describes the events that precipitated the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and analyzes the steps taken by President Kennedy to avert the threat to the security of the western hemisphere.

Unseen companion

2003
In rural Alaska in 1969, the lives of several teenagers come together while trying to find out what happened to a sixteen-year-old boy who is missing.

Thirteen days

2001
President Kennedy and his staff work to avert war after nuclear weapons are discovered in Cuba.

Ultimate sacrifice

John and Robert Kennedy, the plan for a coup in Cuba, and the murder of JFK
2005
Draws on interviews, unpublished papers, and historical documents to reveal the role a previously unknown plan for a coup in Cuba played in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Return to Havana

the decline of Cuban society under Castro
1994
An analysis of how and why the Cuban Revolution has failed.

Castro

1981
Presents a brief biography of Fidel Castro and the events of the Cuban Revolution which brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959.

Long time gone

1996
Autobiography of the former high-ranking Black Panther who hijacked a plane in 1969 to take him to Cuba, where he has lived ever since, in order to avoid charges from a shootout with San Francisco police.

"Che" Guevara

2004
Presents the biography of the life and political philosophy of Latin American revolutionary and guerilla fighter, Ernesto Guevara and describes his association with Cuba's Fidel Castro.

Fidel Castro

1993
Biography of Cuba's prime minister, discussing his rise to power, his regime, his allies, and his adversaries.

Covering Castro

rise and decline of Cuba's communist dictator
1994
Collects articles and excepts from books written by the author on Fidel Castro's arrival and the Communist takeover of Cuba in the 1950s, including profiles of Castro's brother, Raul, and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and discussing the main reason that the invasion supported by the United States failed.

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