Bay of Pigs

Informationen zum Autor Howard Jones is the author of Mutiny on the Amistad and Death of a Generation. He is University Research Professor of History at the University of Alabama. Klappentext A masterful account of one of the most disastrous missteps in in American foreign policy, The Bay of Pigs gives the engrossing story of the US-backed invasion of Cuba in April of 1961 by 1400 exiled Cubans. Zusammenfassung A masterful account of one of the most disastrous missteps in in American foreign policy, The Bay of Pigs gives the engrossing story of the US-backed invasion of Cuba in April of 1961 by 1400 exiled Cubans.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Jones, Howard (University Research Professor of History Jones
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.2010
• EAN: 9780199754250
• ISBN: 978-0-19-975425-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Pivotal Moments in American History; Pivotal Moments in American History; Pivotal Moments in American Hi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Cuba, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, International Relations, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1960 to c 1969, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General