The Bay of Pigs (Pivotal Moments in American History) By Howard Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2008 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 019517383X | PDF | 3.3 MB
In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the openly Marxist Che Guevara and Raul Castro, and seizures of American-owned assets. In little more than a year, President Dwight D. Eisenhower concluded that Castro must go…