Bay of Pigs by Victor Andres Triay
This is the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion, told in the words of the participants who came together in April 1961 to overthrow Fidel Castro's dictatorship. Combining oral history and traditional narrative form, it tells us who individual members of the brigade were and what they fought for.
From the interviews: My [pregnant] wife once asked me, 'How is it possible you are not thinking of your child?' I told her, 'It is precisely because of that child and the two others I have here that I am goingI plan to return to my fatherland, and I don't want a Communist homeland.""' - Jorge Marquet; ""One of the sad things that has happened over this period in the history of Cuba is that historians have not given credit to the idealism of those who turned against the revolution. We were really full of good will and wanted to make Cuba better."" - Eduardo Zayas-Bazan; ""[A] feeling of duty to defend our faith was what motivated my husband.... What made me give my blessing to his activities were my own feelings of duty."" - Myrna Pardo Millan (widowed by the invasion)
Victor Andres Triay, associate professor of history at Middlesex Community College in Middletown, Connecticut, is the author of Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program (UPF, 1998). Triay, whose parents left Cuba in 1960, grew up in Miami, Florida. His essays and short stories have appeared in New to North America: Writings by Immigrants, Their Children, and Grandchildren and in other anthologies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780813020907 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813020905 |
| Title | Bay of Pigs |
| Author | Victor Andres Triay |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University Press of Florida |
| Year published | 2001-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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