M-26: Biography of a Revolution [1 ed.]
“M-26 (Movimiento Revolucionario 26 de Julio) begins on the 26th of July, 1953. From that day when Fidel Castro and a ti
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by Robert Taber M Here is the first accurate report of the incredible six-year struggle in which fifteen hundred rebels tri¬ umphed over a force of thirty-five thousand heavily-armed men. M-26 (Movimiento Revolucionario 26 de Julio) begins on the 26th of July, 1953. From that day when Fidel Castro and a tiny force of Cuban rebels launched an assault on Moncada Barracks to the day the notorious dictator Batista fled from Havana— Robert Taber has chronicled the fate¬ ful years whose outcome has rocked the Western hemisphere. He describes what has happened since then ... and predicts what may happen next. Taber's knowledge was not gleaned from the shores of Miami Beach or the briefing rooms in the State Depart¬ ment building in Washington, D. C. It is first-hand: he lived it. He is one of two CBS newsmen who went into Oriente Province to give the lie to Batista's claim that Fidel Castro was dead. At great personal peril they smuggled television equipment into (continued on back flap)
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