The Brilliant Disaster: Jfk, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, Paperback - Jim Rasenberger

Reducere. A "balanced, engrossing account" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the...

Reducere. For decades, the CIA's top secret postmortem on the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion has been the holy grail of historians, students, and survivors ...

Reducere. After nearly four decades of government denial, the deeds of four Alabama Air National Guardsmen who died at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 have been made...

Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster ...

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An intense and sizzling novel seething with betrayal and political upheaval from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author.

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A "gripping, " (Booklist) "clear-eyed, and honest" (The New York Times Book Review) biography of Samuel Colt--the inventor of the legendary Colt re...

Reducere. The Tri-State Tornado is a gripping account of the worst tornado disaster in American history. Claiming 689 lives during a three-hour rampage acros...

Reducere. "Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --"Christian Sci...

Reducere. A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class...

Reducere. PREPARE. SURVIVE. THRIVE. Is your survival plan complete from A to Z? Are you truly 100 percent prepared? Because if you overlook one vital area, f...

Reducere. For the first time, this ground-breaking book tells the forgotten story of the true genesis of the June 25, 1876 disaster along the Little Bighorn,...

An in-depth examination of one of the most controversial episodes in US-Cuba relations that sheds new light on the program that airlifted 14, 000 u...

Reducere. Vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class d...

Reducere. The enthralling, definitive account -- with guns, diamonds, and champagne that never stops -- of the world's most storied nightspot, where starlets...

Reducere. DescriptionFor nearly 40 years, Jim Simone patrolled Cleveland's 2nd District, a drug-plagued area with one of the highest violent crime rates in t...

Reducere. Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock cr...

Reducere. In the life of the great cultural icon baseball slugger Mickey Mantle, we see America's romance with boldness, its celebration of muscle, and its c...

Reducere. Area 51 It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in N...

It's AD 84 when Bran, a prince of the Carvetii tribe, is captured by the Romans. A legion of soldiers is marching east, to build a military road. I...

As Protector of Undead Pets, Joe must help deranged sausage dog Frankie pass over in peace, by thwarting a burglary plan that he witnessed before b...

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Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes Bridger's quotes about his expeditions *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Exploration o...

Reducere. "The Bahamas are famous for sun, sand--and swimming pigs." --National Geographic In the middle of paradise, with billionaires and celebrities for n...

DescriptionA practical and illustrated guide to getting through all types of life-threatening situations. Are you ready for the big one, whether it...

Reducere. Between the Nebraska border and Osage County, Oklahoma, are the Flint Hills of Kansas, and growing on those hills the last of the tallgrass prairie...

`Thompson's best work of the past three decades' New York Times Book Review

Reducere. Freddy Meyers was a frustrated 10-year-old. Too big to be little and too little to be big. One day though, he was just the right size - for danger....

Reducere. The Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter ...

There wasn't a thing Ernest Shackleton could do. He stood on the ice-bound Weddell Sea, watching the giant blocks of frozen saltwater squeeze his s...

Reducere. These are some of the things you will learn by reading this book: After almost sixty years, it is time for the world to know the truth behind the d...

Reducere. First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers,...

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Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new pe...

Reducere. Mark Lane tried the only U.S. court case in which the jurors concluded that the CIA plotted the murder of President Kennedy, but there was always a...

Reducere. The press called him a real-life James Bond. Fidel Castro called him the most dangerous CIA agent. History remembers him as a Watergate burglar, ye...

Reducere. Ana Montes appeared to be a model employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), advancing quickly through the ranks to become its top analyst ...

Reducere. For all the recent research on deaconesses in the early Church, we still know very little about them, for two reasons: First, their duties were ver...

Cuba: The Mob, Castro, and the End of the Embargo, explores Cuba's complicated history and emergence from an era of economic isolation from the US....

The definitive biography of Harvey Milk: an emotionally compelling story of the life and death of the first openly gay man to be elected to US poli...

After a Choson faction realigned Korea with the Ming dynasty, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, forcing Korea to support the ne...

Reducere. Both delightful and wise, Jim the Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling ...

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Publisher: Marvel ComicsAuthor(s): Jim ZubIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 190 x ...