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The brilliant disaster

JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs

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An edition of The brilliant disaster (2011)

The brilliant disaster

JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

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  • 5 Want to read

A recounting of the Bay of Pigs Crisis drawing upon the author's father's connection to the events as they played out.

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English
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460

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Subjects

History, Foreign relations, Diplomatic relations, Invasion of Cuba (1961) fast (OCoLC)fst01353416, Invasion, Kennedy, john f. (john fitzgerald), 1917-1963, Castro, fidel, 1927-2016, Cuba, history, invasion, 1961, United states, foreign relations, cuba, Cuba, foreign relations, United states, foreign relations, 20th century, United states, foreign relations, 1945-1961

People

Fidel Castro (1926-), John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

Places

United States, Cuba

Times

Invasion, 1961, 1953-1961
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Table of Contents

"The Bay of Pigs thing"
"Balls were in the air" : Saturday April 15, 1961
Honeymoon: April 15-October 26, 1959
A program of covert action: November 3, 1959-January 19, 1961
Golden interlude: January 20-April 14, 1961
D-Day: April 15-April 19, 1961
Aftermath: April 20-December 31, 1962
"It could have been worse"

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-441) and index.

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JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs

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Dewey Decimal Class
972.9106/4
Library of Congress
F1788 .R275 2011, F1788.R275 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 460 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
460

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OL24895858M
ISBN 10
141659650X, 1416596534, 1439100470
ISBN 13
9781416596509, 9781416596530, 9781439100479
LCCN
2011004178
OCLC/WorldCat
646112911

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