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Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Because in 1961, no one would have called Fidel Castro the retiring type. There were five of them, each prepared to kill, each with his own reasons for accepting what might well be a suicide mission. The pay? $20,000 apiece. The mission? Find a way into Cuba and kill Castro. This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis under a pen name Lawrence Block never used before or since, is the rarest of Block's...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Baseball has been as much of a national pastime to Cuba as it has to the U.S., due in no small part to Fidel Castro's love of the game. This book chronicles the central role Castro played in transforming the sport from professional to amateur status in the small island country, which has produced dozens, if not hundreds, of baseball stars.
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Cuban director Rebeca Chavez uses archival film and audio material to create a collage of important moments in Castro's political and personal life, including his re-definition of Cuba's role after the collapse of the Communist Bloc.
Author
Series
Latin American perspectives volume no. 13
Publisher
Westview Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Lexile measure
1680L
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ariel
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"Un testimonio excepcional que pone en duda todo lo que se creía saber hasta ahora sobre la vida pública y privada de Fidel Castro. ¿Qué se sabe en realidad de Fidel Castro? ¿Cómo vive? ¿Es de verdad el hombre austero y fiel a los ideales de la revolución comunista que afirma ser? La respuesta, según Juan Reinaldo Sánchez, guardaespaldas personal del Comandante durante diecisiete años, es un rotundo no. El Líder Máximo no solo...
13) Fidel Castro
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the man who became dictator of Cuba in 1959 after a successful revolution against Batista's military dictatorship and reorganized the country into a Communist state.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
":Few people can say they've seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them. Born in Germany at the outbreak of WWII, Marita was incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp as a child. In 1959, she travelled to Cuba where she met and fell in love with Fidel Castro. Yet upon fleeing to America, she was recruited by the CIA to assassinate the Fidel. Torn by love and loyalty, she...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Fidel Castro is perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times. A dictatorial pariah to some, he has become a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts have been made to get Castro to tell his own story, but only now, in the twilight of his years, has he been prepared to set out the details for the...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"[Thirteen-year-old Lora] a young Cuban teenager ... volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read"--Amazon.
19) Fidel!
Publisher
Microcinema
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
A personal portrait of a political phenomenon and a view of the developments since the revolution a mere ten years before, Fidel! gives a rare glimpse into the everyday life of the Cuban people and their leader.
