 | Cuba (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE) by DK Publishing
Buy new: $18.25 / Used from: $11.50 A great book, even if it is very easy on the current regime. Like all DK books the photography is great. Of course, there isn't much on Guantanamo but there is some interesting material on the area surrounding it. Great for vacation or getting familiar with "Cuba Libre."
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 | The Americano: Fighting with Castro for Cuba's Freedom by Aran Shetterly
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.01 If you think you know about the Cuban revolution you should read this one. Learn the story of an American adventurer who fought Batista as an ALTERNATIVE to Castro, his integration into the new regime and his eventual fall. Reads like a novel.
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 | Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay by Gordon Cucullu
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $5.26 This book will actually tell you what Guantanamo is like from the inside. If you think you're going to read horror stories then you need to look elsewhere... this book has the truth.
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 | The Cuban Revolution: Years of Promise by TEO A. BABUN
Buy new: $25.53 / Used from: $8.02 A lot of photos from the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. Many of the men in this collection were later killed or exiled... victims of Castro's thirst for absolute power.
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 | Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him by Humberto Fontova
Buy used from: $7.95 No story about modern Cuba would be complete without Che. Of course, the guy was a military and economic idiot, but there you go.
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 | The Bay of Pigs: Cuba 1961 (Elite) by Alejandro Quesada
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $11.49 An excellent, if short, look at the Cuban exiles who attempted to liberate Cuba from Castro. A great reference book, it includes photos, maps and color plates.
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 | True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba's Master Spy by Scott W. Carmichael
Buy new: $20.40 / Used from: $2.72 In this book we learn about how Cuba spies on the U.S. Is it any wonder we just caught two more?
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 | One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Vintage) by Michael Dobbs
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $9.03 This is an excellent book about the Cuban Missile Crisis, and much of its quality has to do with recently declassified material and the eye-opening details on tactical nukes delivered to Cuba by the USSR.
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 | Honor Bound: Inside the Guantanamo Trials by Kyndra Rotunda
Buy new: $25.60 / Used from: $21.00 A good book on the legal issues surrounding Guanatanamo Bay and the nature of the detainees held here.
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 | Uncle Sam's Little Wars: The Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion, 1898-1902 (G.I. Series) by John Langellier
Buy used from: $17.22 Good info on the Spanish-American War and the beginning of the U.S. presence in Cuba.
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 | Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis by Alice L. George
Buy new: $32.00 / Used from: $10.87 A look at the response Americans had to the missile crisis triggered by Castro allowing the Soviets to turn Cuba into a missile base.
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