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Title: Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses ISBN: 0-8078-5464-6 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: 24 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A new understanding of this forgotten involvement
Comment: A wonderful account of Cuba's role in Africa. Few if any books exist describing the epic of the Cuban missions to Africa which cost thousands of lives and impacted a continent. Che's diary and 'Guerrilla Prince' are the few books that detail this important facet of Cuban Policy. This book goes a step further from analyzing Che's first failed mission to the Congo to the final victory over South Africa in the Congo. The author describes the Battles as well as the diplomatic missions to such diverse places as Algeria. Everything is covered, from the breakup of the Portuguese empire to the revolutions in Guinea-Bissau. A wonderful singular account that will make you respect Cuba's exporting of revolution and introduce you to many interesting figures, especially opening up the void of African politics, which is all too often ignored.
Seth J. Frantzman
Rating: 5
Summary: first-rate brilliant study
Comment: This magisterial, first-rate study sheds important light on a fascinating and much-neglected chapter of the cold war and authoritatively reveals the decisive contributions of Cuba to liberation movements in Africa. Extremely well-written and documented. Brilliant!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Definitive history of Cuba in Africa
Comment: An excellent look at Cuba's actions in Africa, from its partnership with Algeria in Ben Bella's time, aid to rebels in Congo/Zaire, the independence struggle in Guinea-Bissau, to Angola.
Supremely well-documented. Definitively settles a number of disputed issues: Cuban troops did not go to Angola because the USSR told them to; in fact, the USSR was not even informed until they were on their way. "Benigno" was not, in fact, in the Congo as he claimed. Savimbi did, in fact, collaborate with the Portuguese before independence.
Particularly good on Angola 1977: a lot of stuff I didn't know about independence, and about the joint U.S./South African/Mobutu covert ops culminating in the invasion by regular South African forces. And about how the Cuban response stopped that invasion and drove them out, doing irreparable damage to the image of invincibility, self-confidence, and internal stability of the apartheid regime.
Includes, for background, a good short look at the early history of the Cuban revolution and U.S. response to it.
The author went through the archives of Cuba, the U.S., the former west and east Germanies, and a number of other countries, and obtained a large number of declassified documents.
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Title: The African Dream: The diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Patrick Camiller, Richard Gott, Aleida Guevara March, Ernesto Che Guevara ISBN: 0802138349 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 07 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Shattered Hope by Piero Gleijeses ISBN: 0691025568 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 28 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Power and Protest : Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente by Jeremi Suri ISBN: 0674010310 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Origins of the Vietnam War (Seminar Studies in History Series) by Fredrik Logevall ISBN: 0582319188 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992 by William M. Leogrande ISBN: 0807848573 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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