The Struggle Begins: The Unbroken Circle Series, Book I
Victor Andres Triay, Ph.D., was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban exile parents. He has been a history professor at Middlesex Community College in Middletown, Connecticut, since 1992. His first historical work, Fleeing Castro, was the first book to explore the early 1960s program that brought over 14,000 Cuban children to the United States as unaccompanied refugees. His second book, Bay of Pigs, was the recipient of the 2001 Samuel Proctor Oral History Prize.       In July 2013, Triay entered the world of historical fiction with his book, The Struggle Begins, Book I of the three-book series entitled The Unbroken Circle. Book II, Freedom Betrayed, and Book III, On Freedom's Shores, are scheduled to be released, respectively, in late 2013 and in 2014.     Triay resides in Middletown, Connecticut, with his wife, Emilia, and their three children, Victor Andres, Jr., Gabriela Elena, and Francisco Xavier.