The brilliant disaster
Subtitle: JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
By: Jim Rasenberger
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781416596509; 9781416596530; 9781439100479
Subjects: Foreign relations; History
Other titles: JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
Description: A recounting of the Bay of Pigs Crisis drawing upon the author's father's connection to the events as they played out.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-441) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The Bay of Pigs thing"; title: "Balls were in the air" : Saturday April 15, 1961; title: Honeymoon: April 15-October 26, 1959; title: A program of covert action: November 3, 1959-January 19, 1961; title: Golden interlude: January 20-April 14, 1961; title: D-Day: April 15-April 19, 1961; title: Aftermath: April 20-December 31, 1962; title: "It could have been worse"