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A good account of the vicissitudes, fascination, and dangers of
covering Fidel Castro; author says, in the end, 'it has been highly
satisfying.' Book contains good material on Cuba's foreign
adventures, its espionage network, behind-the-scenes accounts of
major decisions, and other information--Ha
This book discusses Cuba's domestic situation and its relations
with the two countries whose foreign policies have the greatest
impact on it, Russia and the United States. It covers some eight
wars and many other violent manifestations of the human condition.
Merc is a classic; first published in 1979, its characters and
stories are as vivid and worthy of retelling today. American
soldiers of fortune have seen action on nearly every battlefield in
history - from the Revolutionary War to modern times, men like John
Early, a member of the famed Selous Scouts who hunted terrorists in
Rhodesia. They fight because they enjoy combat, for causes in which
they passionately believe, for money, or simply for adventure. The
mercs profiled in this book range from West Point graduates and
Harvard poets to former CIA agents and ex-cons. They are men like
William Morgan, a guerrilla leader in the Cuban uprising against
Fulgencio Batista, later imprisoned and executed by Fidel Castro;
David Marcus, raised in New York's Hell's Kitchen, who went on to a
brilliant career in law and reform politics and died in 1947
fighting for the survival of a tiny new nation called Israel;
William Brooks, Vietnam Special Forces veteran who, down and out in
a cheap Paris hotel, joined the French Foreign Legion and ended up
in a remote African outpost where he lived on Coke, salt tablets
and paregoric while fighting Somali insurgents; and George Bacon,
an ex-CIA operative in Laos with mysterious connections, who died
fighting Cubans in Angola. Because their private histories parallel
the larger history of unconventional warfare and political
upheaval, Merc: American Soldiers of Fortune provides insight into
global conflicts, but most of all it is a fast-paced, eye-opening
account of a little-known but fascinating way of life.
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