Conflicting missions : Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 / / Piero Gleijeses

• Autore: Gleijeses Piero
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (573 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.729106/09/046
• Soggetto topico: National liberation movements - Africa; Cold War
• Soggetto geografico: Cuba Foreign relations Africa; Africa Foreign relations Cuba; Cuba Foreign relations 1959-1990; Africa Foreign relations 1960-; United States Foreign relations Africa; Africa Foreign relations United States; United States Foreign relations 1945-1989
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-538) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Conflicting missions
• ISBN: 1-4696-0336-5; 0-8078-6162-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807735203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Envisioning Cuba.