Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs - Hardcover

Lynch, Grayston L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574881485 ISBN 13: 9781574881486

Publisher: Brassey's US, 1998

Synopsis

When the 2506 Assault Brigade - a force of US-trained Cuban exiles - invaded Fidel Castro's Cuba in April 1961, Grayston L. Lynch was the CIA's case officer on the Brigade's command ship. This is his eyewitness account of what really happened, an action-filled personal account of a historical watershed.

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Review:

"A rousing military adventure written by one of the [CIA's] best and bravest....Convincing and infuriating."

"Gray Lynch was there at the Bay of Pigs and was in perfect position to write the definitive ground-level account of what went right and what went wrong. His anger toward the men at the top is the anger of a patriot who feels he was betrayed. This is not a book for those who love Camelot."

"Grabs and retains the reader's attention with fastpaced action, convincing tactical commentary, tales of bravery, a few accounts of cowardice, and the story of a brutal, tragic end to the enterprise."

"This book is his testimony--a devastating corrective to the historical pseudo-record."

From the Author:

This is the definitive work on the Bay of Pigs Invasion
When the 2506 Assault Brigade—a force of U. S.-trained Cuban exiles—invaded Fidel Castro's Cuba in April 1961, I was the CIA's case officer on the Brigade's command ship. I led the first combat team ashore, handled every communication between Washington and the beachhead, and spent three agonizing days at the battle's end rescuing survivors...Decision for Disaster is my eyewitness account of what really happened. It is based on my observations before, during, and after the battle, as well as on recently declassified information. It is the action-filled personal account of a historical watershed, the impact of which is still felt strongly today.

"Gray Lynch was there at the Bay of Pigs and was in the perfect position to write the definitive ground-level account of what went wrong. His anger toward the men at the top is the anger of a patriot who feels he was betrayed. This is not a book for those who love Camelot." —Seynour M. Hersh

About this edition

• Publisher: Brassey's US
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1574881485
• ISBN 13: 9781574881486
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224