The Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro is one of the most written-about men in the world today. Most approaches to his life are either glowing hagiographies, or critical rants in which he is portrayed as a dictator who has kept the island of Cuba under his heel for the past fifty years. By contrast, N[...]

This book tells of the last doomed eleven months in the life of one of the most courageous and dedicated revolutionaries of the 20th century. First published in Cuba in 1968, this is a unique account of the guerrilla's lonely fight against armies, mountains, jungles, hunger, disease and death.[...]

Many photographers have tried to capture the elusive and enigmatic figure of Fidel Castro--the man behind the beard. This book presents a unique and intimate perspective of the Cuban leader through the camera lens of his son, Alex Castro, revealing the gaze of a photographer as well as that of a son[...]

Tras la larga convalecencia sufrida en 2006, Fidel Castro reviso y amplio el exhaustivo trabajo de investigacion y entrevistas que Ignacio Ramonet habia publicado ese mismo ano. Sin duda, el presente libro responde a preguntas imprescindibles para entender la historia reciente de Cuba y completa de [...]

Sociologo, teorico de la cultura, periodista y una de las voces mas representativas del movimiento altermundista, Ignacio Ramonet ha logrado desvelar -tras semanas de intensas conversaciones- las claves de la Revolucion cubana a traves de la biografia humana y politica del ultimo «monstruo sagrado [...]

Fidel Castro, för många synonymt med kommunism och diktatur, är så mycket mer. I ett kondenserat format tecknar författaren och journalisten Björn Kumm en fullödig biografi. Vi följer ungdomens vilda gangsterår, den revolutionära tiden i fängelset, maktövertagandet 1959. Den dramatiska r[...]

»Björn Kumm bjuder på överraskande kunskap.» Folkbladet

Fidel Castro, för många synonymt med kommunism och diktatur, är så mycket mer. I ett kondenserat format tecknar författaren och journalisten Björn Kumm en fullödig biografi. Vi följer ungdomens vilda gangsterår, den rev[...]

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 [...]