"Fidel's devotion to the word is almost magical."--Gabriel Garcia Marquez The most comprehensive selection of the most famous speeches of Fidel Castro is now available in the original Spanish language. An articulate and incisive, if controversial, political figure on the world stage for five decades[...]

Now in paperback, the intimate and highly revealing life story of the world's longest-serving, most charismatic, and contro- versial head of state in modern times.Numerous attempts have been made to get Fidel Castro to tell his own story. But it was only as he stepped down after five decades in powe[...]

Fidel Castro, one of the chief protagonists of the Cold War and Washington's traditional foe, casts a critical eye over the significance of President Obama's election and his performance during his first term of office. Since retiring from public life due to ill health in 2006, the Cuban leader has [...]

Fifty years after the Cuban revolution, this timely book, the most intimate and dispassionate biography of Fidel Castro to date, offers a fresh assessment of the revolutionary leader. Written by the British ambassador to Cuba in the early 1990s, it chronicles the events of Castro's extraordinary lif[...]

After overthrowing Fuigencia Batista in 1959, Fidel Castro became the leader of an island country only ninety miles away from Florida. While in power, Castro outlasted ten US presidents and turned the small nation into a one-party state with influence over the entire world. Called a leader by some a[...]

In "The Double Life of Fidel Castro," one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba. Responsible for protecting the "Lider maximo" for [...]

The secrets behind one of the world's most secretive dictators. Fidel Castro's life from revolutionary to being one of the wealthiest leaders in the world[...]