Synopses & Reviews
This first-time paperback edition, now updated, describes and analyzes Cuba's history from the English capture of Havana in 1762 through Spanish colonialism, American imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, and the Missile Crisis to Fidel Castro's defiant but precarious present state.
About the Author
Hugh Thomas is the author of The Spanish Civil War, Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico, and, most recently, The Slave Trade.