The Yankee Comandante
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The Yankee Comandante
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Author : Gani Jakupi
language : en
Publisher: Europe Comics
Release Date : 2019-06-12T00:00:00+02:00
The Yankee Comandante written by Gani Jakupi and has been published by Europe Comics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-12T00:00:00+02:00 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
This is the true story of William Alexander Morgan, the Yankee Comandante, an idealistic young American who found fame fighting in the Cuban Revolution. The blond American didn't speak a word of Spanish, but he felt his rightful place was among the guerilleros of the Escambray Mountains, fighting to bring down dictator Fulgencio Batista. Morgan was among Havana's liberators in 1959, an act that led FBI director Edgar Hoover to strip him of his American citizenship. There was a time when Morgan was international front-page news, on a level with Che Guevara. Yet "el comandante yanqui" has largely disappeared from the history of the Cuban Revolution. Author Gani Jakupi recounts a forgotten tale from one of the greatest military and political events of the 20th century.
The Yankee Comandante
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Author : Michael Sallah
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-01-06
The Yankee Comandante written by Michael Sallah and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-06 with History categories.
William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of Cuba. He led one band of guerrillas, and Che Guevara another, and together they swept through the country, ultimately forcing corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista from power. In just a year of fighting, the American revolutionary had altered the landscape of the Cold War. But Morgan believed they were fighting to liberate Cuba. Then Fidel Castro canceled elections, seized properties, and imprisoned Morgan’s fellow freedom fighters. Even Morgan’s own house mysteriously blew up. But The Comandante is about more than just the revolution. It’s the story of two people in love, pressured by government agents and mobsters vying to control a nation that soon brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction. In the mountains, Morgan met Olga Rodriguez, a beautiful, fiery nurse, whom he soon married. Together, amid their firestorm romance, they decided to take a stand and take back the government from Castro and Guevara. The newlyweds began running arms to prepare for a counterrevolution, soon caught in a cloak-and-dagger web among Castro’s forces; the Mob, which controlled Havana; and the CIA’s preparations for the Bay of Pigs Invasion. But one of Morgan’s guards betrayed him to Castro, who threw the counterrevolutionary in prison, placing his wife and their two daughters under house arrest. The couple smuggled secret messages to each other until Olga ultimately escaped by drugging her captors. Before she could free her husband, though, a junta tribunal tried and sentenced him to death by firing squad. Drawing on declassified FBI, CIA, and Army intelligence records as well as Olga’s diaries, Pulitzer Prize–winning authors Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss skillfully reveal the inner workings of the Cuban Revolution while detailing the incredible love story of a rebel nurse and an American street hero who left their mark on history.
El Commandante Yankee
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Author : Gani Jakupi
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-03
El Commandante Yankee written by Gani Jakupi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-03 with categories.
Son nom ne vous dit peut-être rien : William Alexander Morgan. Pourtant, en prenant parti pour les rebelles, il devint une figure majeure de la révolution cubaine, le seul comandante non cubain avec le célèbre "Che" Guevara. Ancien soldat américain, "Yankee" combattant pour la cause de Fidel Castro et les valeurs démocratiques du Segundo Frente, son implication le mènera à participer activement aux conflits avant que les bouleversements politiques ne coupent court à ses convictions. Au fil de plus de dix ans de recherches à recueillir les témoignages d'acteurs privilégiés de la révolution, tels que le commandant en chef du Segundo Frente Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo en personne, à étudier les textes sur le personnage et à explorer les lieux habités par la rébellion castriste — obtenant ainsi des documents inédits à ce jour —, Gani Jakupi a tiré la matière nécessaire à ce véritable roman graphique, ainsi qu'il le souligne lui-même.
The Yankee Comandante
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Author : David GRANN
language : fr
Publisher: Editions Allia
Release Date : 2015-01-06T00:00:00+01:00
The Yankee Comandante written by David GRANN and has been published by Editions Allia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-06T00:00:00+01:00 with Fiction categories.
Le comandante yankee, c'est William Alexander Morgan, figure héroïque de la révolution cubaine pour les uns, traître national pour les autres. Cet homme intègre n'aura eu qu'un mot à la bouche : Liberté. Mais aussi : Vengeance. En 1957, il se joint aux forces rebelles menées par Fidel Castro pour libérer Cuba du dictateur Batista. Son mobile : venger la mort de l'un de ses amis, torturé et jeté aux requins pour avoir fourni des armes aux rebelles. Ce renversement politique permet l’accession au pouvoir de Fidel Castro, le même qui ordonnera qu'on le fusille, le 11 mars 1961. Salué pour sa bravoure, Morgan avait obtenu le plus haut grade, celui de commandant, à l'égal de l'autre figure étrangère de cette rébellion, l'Argentin Che Guevara. Cependant, cet Américain proche de Castro éveille bientôt des soupçons... C’est un véritable récit de guerre dont David Grann dévoile ici les péripéties, dans un climat politique brûlant, où l'espionnage est de mise, la trahison une règle. Du moins, le croit-on. Car ce livre, c'est aussi une épopée tragique et sentimentale, le destin hors du commun d'un homme apatride, amoureux d'une guérillera. David Grann entraîne le lecteur dans un véritable thriller, bien qu'il se fonde sur des faits avérés. Il a bénéficié pour ce récit de l'ouverture des archives de la CIA, du FBI et des renseignements militaires. Dans ce reportage de haute volée, Grann fait la lumière sur les idéaux d'une révolution dont l'impact fut mondial et il réhabilite un homme qui y a joué un rôle de premier plan.
The Americano
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Author : Aran Shetterly
language : en
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Release Date : 2007-08-10
The Americano written by Aran Shetterly and has been published by Algonquin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Why do I fight here in this land so foreign to my own? Why did I come here far from my home and family?...Is it because I seek adventure? No...I am here because I believe that the most important thing for free men to do is to protect the freedom of others." —William Morgan, in a letter to Herbert Matthews at the New York Times When William Morgan was twenty-two years old, he was working as a high school janitor in Toledo Ohio. Seven years later, in 1958, he walked into a Rebel camp in the Cuban Jungle to join the revolutionaries in their fight to overthrow the corrupt Cuban president, Fulgencio Batista. They were wary of the broad-shouldered, blond-haired, blue-eyed americano but Morgan's dedication and passion, his military skill and charisma, led him to become a chief comandante in Castro's army—he was the only foreigner to hold such a rank, with the exception of Che Guevera. Vicious battles in the jungles were followed by victorious revelry in the cities. Morgan married a Cuban beauty. He single-handedly thwarted the Dominican Republic's attempt to overthrow Castro. And he was chosen to work with Castro and other high ranking Rebels to improve the quality of life for all people. This man who had lived under the radar in America was now a Cuban hero on the watch lists of several governments, all of whom wondered whose side he was really on. It all ended in 1961, when, at age thirty-two, Morgan was executed by firing squad, at the hands of Fidel Castro. Journalist Aran Shetterly takes us back to an era when democracy could have flourished in Cuba. He interviewed Morgan's friends and family and former Cuban Rebels, and examined FBI and CIA documents in search of the truth. What emerged was the true story of a young man who had never fit in but finally found his place in the world by fighting another country's war.
Youth And The Cuban Revolution
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Author : Anne Luke
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-10-15
Youth And The Cuban Revolution written by Anne Luke and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-15 with History categories.
Youth and the Cuban Revolution: Youth Culture and Politics in 1960s Cuba is a new history of the first decade of the Cuban Revolution, exploring how youth came to play such an important role in the 1960s on this Caribbean island. Certainly, youth culture and politics worldwide were in the ascendant in that decade, but in this pioneering and thought-provoking work Anne Luke explains how the unique circumstances of the newly developing socialist revolution in Cuba created an ethos of youth which becomes one of the factors that explains how and why the Cuban Revolution survives to this day. By examining how youth was constructed and constituted within revolutionary discourse, policy, and the lived experience of young Cubans in the 1960s, Luke examines the conflicted (but ultimately successful) development of a revolutionary youth culture. She explores the fault lines along which the notion of youth was created—between the internal and the external, between discourse and the everyday, between politics and culture. Luke looks at how in the first decade of the Cuban Revolution a young leadership—Fidel, Raúl and Che—were complemented by a group of new protagonists from Cuba’s young generation. These could be literacy teachers, party members, militia members, teachers, singers, poets… all aiming to define and shape the Cuban Revolution. Together young Cubans took part in defining what it meant to be young, socialist and Cuban in this effervescent decade. The picture that emerges is one in which neither youth politics nor youth culture can alone help to explain the first decade of the Revolution; rather through the sometimes conflicted intersection of both there emerged a generation constantly to be renewed—a youth in Revolution.
Cuba S Revolutionary World
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Author : Jonathan C. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-24
Cuba S Revolutionary World written by Jonathan C. Brown and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-24 with History categories.
On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time “the real Revolution” had arrived. As Jonathan Brown shows in this capacious history of the Cuban Revolution, Castro’s words proved prophetic not only for his countrymen but for Latin America and the wider world. Cuba’s Revolutionary World examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the twentieth century’s most transformative events. Initially, Castro’s revolution augured well for democratic reform movements gaining traction in Latin America. But what had begun promisingly veered off course as Castro took a heavy hand in efforts to centralize Cuba’s economy and stamp out private enterprise. Embracing the Soviet Union as an ally, Castro and his lieutenant Che Guevara sought to export the socialist revolution abroad through armed insurrection. Castro’s provocations inspired intense opposition. Cuban anticommunists who had fled to Miami found a patron in the CIA, which actively supported their efforts to topple Castro’s regime. The unrest fomented by Cuban-trained leftist guerrillas lent support to Latin America’s military castes, who promised to restore stability. Brazil was the first to succumb to a coup in 1964; a decade later, military juntas governed most Latin American states. Thus did a revolution that had seemed to signal the death knell of dictatorship in Latin America bring about its tragic opposite.
The Chinese In Cuba 1847 Now
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Author : Mauro García Triana
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2009-01-16
The Chinese In Cuba 1847 Now written by Mauro García Triana and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-16 with History categories.
This book deals with Chinese immigrants' role in the struggle for Cuban liberation and in Cuba's twentieth-century revolutionary social movement; the history of the Chinese economy in Cuba; and the Chinese contribution to Cuban music, painting, food, sport, and language. The centerpiece of the book is a translation of a study by Mauro Garc'a Triana and Pedro Eng Herrera on the history of the Chinese presence in Cuba. Over many years, Garc'a and Eng have collaborated closely on scholarly research on the Chinese contribution to Cuban life and politics, although their work is not widely known. Both are well equipped for such an enterprise: Eng as a Cuban of Chinese descent and a participant in the ethnic-Chinese revolutionary movement in Cuba, starting in the 1950s; Garc'a as a participant in the struggle against Batista and Cuban Ambassador to China during the period of the Cultural Revolution. The study is supplemented by an extensive collection of archival photographs and of paintings on Cuban-Chinese themes by Pedro Eng, who is not just a chronicler of the community but a well-known worker-artist who paints in a style described by commentators as 'naive.' The volume has three appendices: excerpts from the Cuba Commission's 1877 report on Chinese emigration to Cuba; the rebel leader Gonzalo de Quesada y Ar-stegui's pamphlet 'The Chinese and Cuban Independence,' translated from his book Mi primera ofrenda (My first offering), first published in 1892; and the chapter on 'Coolie Life in Cuba' from Duvon Clough Corbitt's Study of the Chinese in Cuba, 1847-1947 (Wilmore 1971).
The Untold History Of The United States Volume 2
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Author : Oliver Stone
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-01-15
The Untold History Of The United States Volume 2 written by Oliver Stone and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discover America’s secrets in this second of two volumes of the young readers’ edition of The Untold History of the United States, from Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Eric Singer. There is history as we know it. And there is history we should have known. Complete with poignant photos and little-known but vitally important stories, this second of two volumes traces how people around the world responded to the United States’s rise as a superpower from the end of World War II through an increasingly tense Cold War and, eventually, to the brink of nuclear annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is not the kind of history taught in schools or normally presented on television or in popular movies. This riveting young readers volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies to reveal uncomfortable realities about the US role in heightening Cold War tensions. It also humanizes the experiences of diverse people, at home and abroad, who yearned for a more just, equal, and compassionate world. This volume will come as a breath of fresh air for students, teachers, and budding young historians hungry for different perspectives—which makes it a crucial counterpoint to today’s history textbooks. Adapted by high school and university educator Eric S. Singer from the bestselling book and companion to the documentary The Untold History of the United States by Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and renowned historian Peter Kuznick, this volume gives young readers a powerful and provocative look at the US role in the Cold War. It also provides a blueprint for those concerned with shaping a better and more equitable future for people across the world.
Young Castro
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Author : Jonathan M. Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2020-06-30
Young Castro written by Jonathan M. Hansen and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This intimate, revisionist portrait of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world, is “sure to become the standard on Castro’s early life” (Publishers Weekly). Until now, biographers have treated Castro’s life like prosecutors, scouring his past for evidence to convict a person they don’t like or don’t understand. Young Castro challenges us to put aside the caricature of a bearded, cigar-munching, anti-American hothead to discover how Castro became the dictator who acted as a thorn in the side of US presidents for nearly half a century. In this “gripping and edifying narrative…Hansen brings imposing research and notable erudition” (Booklist) to Castro’s early life, showing Castro getting his toughness from a father who survived Spain’s class system and colonial wars to become one of the most successful independent plantation owners in Cuba. We see a boy running around that plantation more comfortable playing with the children of his father’s laborers than his own classmates at elite boarding schools in Santiago de Cuba and Havana. We discover a young man who writes flowery love letters from prison and contemplates the meaning of life, a gregarious soul attentive to the needs of strangers but often indifferent to the needs of his own family. These pages show a liberal democrat who admires FDR’s New Deal policies and is skeptical of communism, but is also hostile to American imperialism. They show an audacious militant who stages a reckless attack on a military barracks but is canny about building an army of resisters. In short, Young Castro reveals a complex man. The first American historian in a generation to gain access to the Castro archives in Havana, Jonathan Hansen was able to secure cooperation from Castro’s family and closest confidants. He gained access to hundreds of never-before-seen letters and interviewed people he was the first to ask for their impressions of the man. The result is a nuanced and penetrating portrait of a man at once brilliant, arrogant, bold, vulnerable, and all too human: a man who, having grown up on an island that felt like a colonial cage, was compelled to lead his country to independence.
