Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story

Peter Wyden

ISBN 10: 0671240064 / ISBN 13: 9780671240066

Published by Simon & Schuster Books, 1979

Seller Inventory # 0671240064-3-23838001

Synopsis:

Here, for the first time, is the true record of the conversations, decisions, individual acts of heroism, mistakes and tragic misunderstandings that led to one of the most notorious and public failures of American power. Peter Wyden has had access to many hitherto secret documents and has interviewed the major participants, the secret planners, the CIA organizers, the civilians and the combatants on both sides, including Cuban exiles, American military commanders and pilots, and the highest advisers to the President. He has uncovered and interviewed eyewitnesses whose identities were kept secret for a generation, and they have revealed to him what they knew, what they saw, what they did. The result is a major document, a work of history that not only records an event until now mostly the subject of rumor, but also establishes, among other things, that American military participation in the operation was far greater than has been supposed (or than President Kennedy had authorized), and that the shelling of a U.S. destroyer off the landing beaches actually came within a hairsbreadth of igniting World War Three.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good