age ~60
from Bethesda, MD
With vivid, unfiltered, photographs, an insider tells the story of the Cuban Revolution as it unfolds.Teofilo Babún Sr., a wealthy Santiago de Cuba businessman and logging camp owner, sensed that the small skirmish near his sawmill involving a ragtag band of guerrillas and the Cuban military was the...
Author
Teo A. Babun, Victor Andres Triay
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
128
Publisher
University Press of Florida
ISBN #
0813028604
EAN Code
9780813028606
ISBN #
6
From the interviews:"My [pregnant] wife once asked me, ‘How is it possible you are not thinking of your child?’ I told her, ‘It is precisely because of that child and the two others I have here that I am going. I plan to return to my fatherland, and I don’t want a Communist homeland.’"-- Jorge Marqu...
Author
Victor Andres Triay
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
256
Publisher
University Press of Florida
ISBN #
0813020905
EAN Code
9780813020907
ISBN #
5
Cuba, 1961. Democratic activists have launched a full-scale insurgency against the emerging Communist dictatorship of Fidel Castro. Abroad, a group of Cuban exiles has allied itself with the United States government and created an assault force called Brigade 2506. The Brigade’s mission: invade Cuba...
Author
Victor Andres Triay
Binding
Paperback
Pages
362
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1491288957
EAN Code
9781491288955
ISBN #
4
It is 1961 and the effort to bring democracy to Cuba has met failure at the Bay of Pigs. Brigade 2506, after having been abandoned on the battlefield by the United States government, now languishes in a Cuban prison. Fidel Castro, meanwhile, finds himself unimpeded in his quest to bring Cuba under C...
Author
Victor Andres Triay
Binding
Paperback
Pages
364
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1500752088
EAN Code
9781500752088
ISBN #
3
A stirring account of the covert effort to smuggle Cuban children into the United States in the aftermath of Fidel Castro's rise to power, Fleeing Castrobrings to light the humanitarian program designed to care for the children once they arrived and the hardship and suffering endured by the families...
Author
Victor Andres Triay
Binding
Paperback
Pages
144
Publisher
University Press of Florida
ISBN #
0813017246
EAN Code
9780813017242
ISBN #
2
Havana, Cuba, 1960. The euphoria following the nation’s successful Revolution the previous year has waned among large sectors of the population. Cuba’s new leader, Fidel Castro, after having promised to restore democracy to the troubled island, is forcibly dragging the country down the road to Commu...
Author
Victor Andres Triay
Binding
Paperback
Pages
210
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1482013150
EAN Code
9781482013153
ISBN #
1
Author
Victor Andres Triay
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
University Press of Florida
ISBN #
12
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
University Press of Florida
ISBN #
8
Victor Andres Triay (born August 2, 1966) is a Cuban American historian and writer, known for the books Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban ...
ISBN #
10