Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution that Changed the World - Hardcover

Perrottet, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0735218161 ISBN 13: 9780735218161

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2019

Synopsis

In this wildly entertaining and meticulously researched account, Tony Perrottet unravels the human drama behind history's most improbable revolution: a scruffy handful of self-taught revolutionaries - many of them kids just out of college, literature majors, art students and young lawyers, and including a number of women - defeated 40,000 professional soldiers to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Cuba Libre! is an entertaining look back at a liberation movement that captured the imagination of the world with its spectacular drama - and that set the stage for a build-up of Cold War tension that became a pivotal moment in history.

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About the Author

Tony Perrottet is the author of five books: Off the Deep End, Pagan Holiday, The Naked Olympics, Napoleon's Privates, and The Sinner's Grand Tour. His travel stories have been translated into a dozen languages and widely anthologized, having been selected six times for the Best American Travel Writing series. He is a regular television guest on the History Channel and a contributing writer at Smithsonian Magazine; his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Cond Nast Traveler, T+L, Outside, Surface, and the London Sunday Times. He lives in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735218161
• ISBN 13: 9780735218161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400