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'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[...]
He is the only world leader to have outlasted nine US presidents, has survived over 600 assassination attempts and remains one of the twentieth century's most controversial figures. Here Castro tells his story in full for the first time, speaking openly about everything from his parents and earliest[...]
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[...]
Traces the life of the Cuban Prime Minister, describes his childhood and education, recounts his overthrow of the Batista government, and looks at the challenges he has faced, including the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis[...]
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[...]
Biography of Fidel Castro
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 [...]
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 [...]
There are few living international figures who fascinate the world more than Fidel Castro. He is at once an infamous historical figure, a modern-day politician and one of the last of his kind. From the leader of a revolution to one who has been accused of dictatorship, exploiting the power of his po[...]
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[...]
*Includes pictures.
*Includes quotes about the plan and its failure, including from declassified CIA files.
*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading.
"Openly and unabashedly they are organizing training camps; openly and unabashedly they are building air bases and air [...]
Este volumen hace parte de los 9 tomos que conforman los libros de: Cuba el legado de Fidel Castro. El autor comienza diciendo que, este libro es "sagrado," como es sagrada la verdad. El hombre, el escritor, el patriota que se vale de mentiras para conseguir un fin supuestamente bueno, deja incrusta[...]
Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad Szulc's Fidel biography, and eve[...]