The inevitable battle
Subtitle: from the Bay Of Pigs to Playa Girón
By: Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Publisher: Editorial Capitán San Luis
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Havana, Cuba
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9789592113374
Subjects: History; Foreign relations; American Espionage; Relations; Subversive activities; Histoire; Relations extérieures; Espionnage américain; Activités subversives; International relations; Diplomatic relations; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States
Work titles: Batalla inevitable
Description: "The Rout of U.S.-organized and -financed forces at Girón Beach on Cuba's Bay of Pigs in April 1961 was Washington's greatest military defeat in the Americas. It has marked the course of history for the last fifty years ... is a fast-moving narrative by an author who at the time was a young literacy teacher in the zone where the battle was fought. Painstakingly researched, without caricatures and oversimplifications, it offers one of the fullest accounts yet written. It will satisfy the most demanding of readers, as well as those simply curious to learn the story of the this momentous event."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published in Spanish under the title: La batalla inevitable : la más colosal operación de la CIA contra Fidel Castro. Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba : Editorial Capitán San Luis, [1996].

Includes bibliographical references.