The last soldiers of the Cold War : the story of the Cuban Five /
Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s. Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting up Cuban...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Brooklyn, New York :
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2015.
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| Summary: | Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s. Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting up Cuban beaches with machine guns. The Cuban government struck back with the Wasp Network, a dozen men and two women, sent to infiltrate those organizations. The Last Soldiers of the Cold War tells the story of those unlikely Cuban spies and their eventual unmasking and prosecution by US authorities. Five of the Cubans received long or life prison terms on charges of espionage and murder. Global best-selling Brazilian author Fernando Morais narrates the riveting tale of the Cuban Five in vivid, page-turning detail, delving into the decades-long conflict between Cuba and the United States, the growth of the powerful Cuban exile community in Florida and a trial that eight Nobel Prize winners condemned as a travesty of justice. The Last Soldiers of the Cold War is both a real-life spy thriller and a searching examination of the Cold War's legacy. |
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| Item Description: | First published as Os Últimos Soldados da Guerra Fria, Companhia das Letras, 2011. |
| Physical Description: | 275 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275). |
| ISBN: | 9781781688762 (paperback : alkaline paper) 1781688761 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9781781688779 178168877X 9781781688786 1781688788 |