Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean - Brossura

Von Tunzelmann, Alex

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0857201891 ISBN 13: 9780857201898

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2011

Riassunto

America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on.
During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis, while the United States and the USSR acted out the world's rising tensions in its island nations. Meanwhile the leaders of these nations - the charismatic Fidel Castro, and his mysterious brother Raśl; the ideologue Che Guevara; the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; and Franēois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement and torture - had ambitions of their own.
Alex von Tunzelmann's brilliant narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War to its end. The superpowers thought they could use these Caribbean leaders as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life. The United States, in its all-consuming fight against communism, stumbled into one disaster after another. First, with the Bay of Pigs, and then with the Cuban Missile Crisis, it helped bring the world as close to catastrophic nuclear war as it has ever been. Red Heat is an authoritative and eye-opening account of a wildly dramatic and dangerous era of international politics that has unmistakable resonance today.

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Alex von Tunzelmann is the author of Indian Summer. She was educated at Oxford and lives in London.

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The secret war in the Caribbean is revealed as never before in this riveting tale of the machinations of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on.

During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union tried to use the leaders of the three most important Caribbean nations - Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic - as puppets. What neither had bargained for was that the puppets would come to life. With the Bay of Pigs invasion, the United States pushed Cuba towards the Soviet Union. Then, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the whole world teetered on the brink of nuclear war.

Alex von Tunzelmann's brilliant narrative is an authoritative and shocking account of a dangerous era of international politics that has unmistakable resonance today.
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'Pretty close to a flat-out masterpiece' William Dalrymple
'A riveting account . . . highly researched, sharp and funny' Evening Standard
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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0857201891
• ISBN 13: 9780857201898
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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