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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Yankee comandantedi Michael Sallah
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. focuses on Toledo native Wm Morgan who leaves his family & joins the rebels fighting Batista's men during the Cuban Revolution. Naivete soldier who does not see the writing on his political wall & is arrested, jailed , found guilty of smuggling guns. Arrested, jailed, convicted & shot by casto's firing squad The Yankee Comandante is a great book on William Morgan and his role as an American in the Cuban Revolution. Morgan is part troublemaker and part adventure seeker as he finds his way from being in the U.S. Army and raising a family in Ohio to leading Cuban rebels in the mountains against dictator Fulgencio Batista.The book provides a well-rounded look on how Morgan transforms himself from an American who knows little about Cube (and much less the language) to a leader who is willing to take on Batista, Castro and anyone threatening his new family on the island. The story of Morgan is so engrossing that the book feels like a political thriller at times. The book isn't a mere by biography about Morgan since it explores his wife's life, the background of some of his fellow commadantes and the overall Cuban political situation. The downside of this book is that the authors do expect the reader to already have some understanding of Cuba's place in the Cold War and the U.S.' relationship with the island nation prior to the Revolution. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of Cuba. He led one band of guerrillas, and Che Guevara another, and together they swept through the country, ultimately forcing corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista from power. In just a year of fighting, the American revolutionary had altered the landscape of the Cold War. But Morgan believed they were fighting to liberate Cuba. Then Fidel Castro canceled elections, seized properties, and imprisoned Morgan's fellow freedom fighters. Even Morgan's own house mysteriously blew up. But The Comandante is about more than just the revolution. It's the story of two people in love, pressured by government agents and mobsters vying to control a nation that soon brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction. In the mountains, Morgan met Olga Rodriguez, a beautiful, fiery nurse, whom he soon married. Together, amid their firestorm romance, they decided to take a stand and take back the government from Castro and Guevara. The newlyweds began running arms to prepare for a counterrevolution, soon caught in a cloak-and-dagger web among Castro's forces; the Mob, which controlled Havana; and the CIA's preparations for the Bay of Pigs Invasion. But one of Morgan's guards betrayed him to Castro, who threw the counterrevolutionary in prison, placing his wife and their two daughters under house arrest. The couple smuggled secret messages to each other until Olga ultimately escaped by drugging her captors. Before she could free her husband, though, a junta tribunal tried and sentenced him to death by firing squad. Drawing on declassified FBI, CIA, and Army intelligence records as well as Olga's diaries, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss skillfully reveal the inner workings of the Cuban Revolution while detailing the incredible love story of a rebel nurse and an American street hero who left their mark on history. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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