Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers After the Missile Crisis

Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers After the Missile Crisis
ISBN-10
0742554996
ISBN-13
9780742554993
Category
History
Pages
324
Language
English
Published
2006-12
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Authors
James G. Blight, Philip Brenner

Description

In tracing the developments of the Missile Crisis and beyond, this text presents and interprets a secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban leadership in 1968.

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