Conflicting missions [electronic resource] : Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 / Piero Gleijeses.

By: Gleijeses, PieroContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Envisioning CubaPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002Description: xix, 552 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): National liberation movements -- Africa | Cold War | Cuba -- Foreign relations -- Africa | Africa -- Foreign relations -- Cuba | Cuba -- Foreign relations -- 1959-1990 | Africa -- Foreign relations -- 1960- | United States -- Foreign relations -- Africa | Africa -- Foreign relations -- United States | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 327.729106/09/046 LOC classification: DT38.9.C9 | G57 2002Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: I Castro's Cuba, 1959-1964 12 -- 2 Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria 30 -- 3 Flee! The White Giants Are Coming! 57 -- 4 Castro Turns to Central Africa 77 -- 6 Che in Zaire 1ol -- 6 A Successful Covert Operation 124 -- 7 American Victory 137 -- 8 Cubans in the Congo i6o -- 9 Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau 185 -- 10 Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975 214 -- 11 The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire 230 -- 12 The Gathering Storm: Angola,January-October 1975 246 -- 13 South Africa's Friends 273 -- 14 Pretoria Meets Havana 300 -- 15 Cuban Victory 328 -- 16 Repercussions 347 -- 17 Looking Back 373 -- Appendix 397 -- Notes 399 -- Bibliography 503 -- Index 539.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-538) and index.

Machine generated contents note: I Castro's Cuba, 1959-1964 12 -- 2 Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria 30 -- 3 Flee! The White Giants Are Coming! 57 -- 4 Castro Turns to Central Africa 77 -- 6 Che in Zaire 1ol -- 6 A Successful Covert Operation 124 -- 7 American Victory 137 -- 8 Cubans in the Congo i6o -- 9 Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau 185 -- 10 Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975 214 -- 11 The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire 230 -- 12 The Gathering Storm: Angola,January-October 1975 246 -- 13 South Africa's Friends 273 -- 14 Pretoria Meets Havana 300 -- 15 Cuban Victory 328 -- 16 Repercussions 347 -- 17 Looking Back 373 -- Appendix 397 -- Notes 399 -- Bibliography 503 -- Index 539.

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