LEADER 03395nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910777593803321 005 20230120033046.0 010 $a1-4696-0336-5 010 $a0-8078-6162-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000447680 035 $a(EBL)475182 035 $a(OCoLC)56356648 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000777084 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12361171 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777084 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10754909 035 $a(PQKB)10962836 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL475182 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10202606 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC475182 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4401500 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000447680 100 $a20010302d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConflicting missions$b[electronic resource] $eHavana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 /$fPiero Gleijeses 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (573 p.) 225 1 $aEnvisioning Cuba 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-5464-6 311 $a0-8078-2647-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [503]-538) and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: I Castro's Cuba, 1959-1964 12 -- 2 Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria 30 -- 3 Flee! The White Giants Are Coming! 57 -- 4 Castro Turns to Central Africa 77 -- 6 Che in Zaire 1ol -- 6 A Successful Covert Operation 124 -- 7 American Victory 137 -- 8 Cubans in the Congo i6o -- 9 Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau 185 -- 10 Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975 214 -- 11 The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire 230 -- 12 The Gathering Storm: Angola,January-October 1975 246 -- 13 South Africa's Friends 273 -- 14 Pretoria Meets Havana 300 -- 15 Cuban Victory 328 -- 16 Repercussions 347 -- 17 Looking Back 373 -- Appendix 397 -- Notes 399 -- Bibliography 503 -- Index 539. 330 $aThis is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964-65--where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 1,000 mercenaries controlled by the CIA--and, finally, to the dramatic dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola in 1975-76, which stopped the South African advance on Luanda and doomed Henry Kissinger's 410 0$aEnvisioning Cuba. 606 $aNational liberation movements$zAfrica 606 $aCold War 607 $aCuba$xForeign relations$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xForeign relations$zCuba 607 $aCuba$xForeign relations$y1959-1990 607 $aAfrica$xForeign relations$y1960- 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989 615 0$aNational liberation movements 615 0$aCold War. 676 $a327.729106/09/046 700 $aGleijeses$b Piero$0688896 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777593803321 996 $aConflicting missions$91234687 997 $aUNINA