"This is the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion, told for the first time in the words of the idealistic participants who came together in April 1961 to overthrow Fidel Castro's dictatorship. Most of the approximately 1,500 men of Brigade 2506 were captured by Castro's forces in Cuban swamps and jailed until December 1962. About 114 died ... [This book] tells the personal stories of the invasion in an account that restores the human dimension to a pivotal moment in the history of the Cold War"--Publisher marketing.
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"This is the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion, told for the first time in the words of the idealistic participants who came together in April 1961 to overthrow Fidel Castro's dictatorship. Most of the approximately 1,500 men of Brigade 2506 were captured by Castro's forces in Cuban swamps and jailed until December 1962. About 114 died ... [This book] tells the personal stories of the invasion in an account that restores the human dimension to a pivotal moment in the history of the Cold War"--Publisher marketing.
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VG/VG. 0813020905. Hardcover first edition with mild shelfwear; crisp, glossy DJ with scant wear (no tears). Attractive, crisp copy. Not a former library copy.;
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