Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean - Softcover

Tunzelmann, Alex Von

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771086148 ISBN 13: 9780771086144

Verlag: Emblem Editions, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The Cuban Missile Crisis may have lasted only thirteen days, but as revealed in this scintillating popular history, it was just one battle in a decades-long secret war that was fought in the island nations of the Caribbean.
 
The US and the USSR thought they could use Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic as puppets in their political games throughout the 50s and 60s. What neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life. Red Heat is the gripping story of the intrigues and blunders of the superpowers -- and the men, armed with nothing more than words and ruthlessness, who would rise to become the leaders of their nations: in Cuba, the charismatic Fidel Castro, his mysterious brother Raúl, and the ideologue Che Guevara; in the Dominican Republic, the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; in Haiti, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement, and torture.

With extraordinary wit, insight, and narrative verve, von Tunzelmann brilliantly interweaves the stories of these five rivals and accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War and crafts a vibrant panorama of the Caribbean during a dangerous era of international politics that has unmistakable resonance today.

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Recensione

"Action-packed and entertaining . . . unimaginably rich in detail, scholarship, and humanity."
—Winnipeg Free Press
 
"A page-turning record of the madness seizing the Caribbean at the Cold War's zenith. . . . Von Tunzelmann artfully mixes the ambitions, love lives, drug use, grievances, deceptions and miscalculations of these and a host of lesser characters with grand historical themes... A remarkably gripping popular history."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From the Hardcover edition.

L'autore

ALEX VON TUNZELMANN is the author of Indian Summer. She was educated at Oxford and has written for the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Daily Beast. She has also contributed research to books as diverse as The Political Animal by Jeremy Paxman and Not on the Label by Felicity Lawrence.
From the Hardcover edition.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Emblem Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0771086148
• ISBN 13: 9780771086144
• Einband: Copertina flessibile
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480