The
brilliant disaster
JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
Rasenberger, Jim.
creator
text
bibliography
biography
nyu
New York
Scribner
2011
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
monographic
eng
xviii, 460 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
A recounting of the Bay of Pigs Crisis drawing upon the author's father's connection to the events as they played out.
"The Bay of Pigs thing" -- "Balls were in the air" : Saturday April 15, 1961 -- Honeymoon: April 15-October 26, 1959 -- A program of covert action: November 3, 1959-January 19, 1961 -- Golden interlude: January 20-April 14, 1961 -- D-Day: April 15-April 19, 1961 -- Aftermath: April 20-December 31, 1962 -- "It could have been worse"
Jim Rasenberger.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-441) and index.
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Cuba
History
Invasion, 1961
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald)
1917-1963
Castro, Fidel
1926-
United States
Foreign relations
Cuba
Cuba
Foreign relations
United States
United States
Foreign relations
1953-1961
Cuba
Historia
Invasión, 1961
Cuba
Relaciones exteriores
Estados Unidos
Estados Unidos
Relaciones exteriores
Cuba
107 F 1788 R224b 2011
972.9106/4
9781416596509 (hbk.)
141659650X (hbk.)
9781439100479 (ebk.)
1439100470 (ebk.)
2011004178
DLC
110204
20230404130032.0
108999