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Books : History : Countries & Regions : Central America & Caribbean : Caribbean Islands

• The Caribbean (Brief Histories)

  Gad Heuman

  
  
   

• Cuba: A New History (Yale Nota Bene)

  R Gott

  
  
   

• Waiting for Snow in Havana

  Carlos M.N. Eire

  
  Carlos Eire's memoir of his childhood in Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy explodes off the page with the smells, sights, and sounds of the tropics. But the most interesting aspect of his story is the story of the Revolution from a boy too young to know exactly what's happening.

  Just nine-years-old when Castro and his fellow revolutionaries overthrew Batista, Eire watched as relatives were arrested, property confiscated, and rights lost. Naturally, it was a confusing time for the boy, as his whole world was turned upside-down by factors both visible, such as militiamen, and invisible. "I woke up to the fact that something had gone awfully wrong with the world that day," writes Eire. "We stood there for a while, all of us, asking questions, complaining... it was the sheer shock of encountering a stupid rule that kept us there, loitering under the marquee." The rule? The movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was suddenly off-limits to minors.

  There is no love lost between the author--today a history and religious studies professor at Yale--and the man he calls a "ruthless dictator masquerading as a humanitarian."

  Waiting for Snow in Havana is a cry from the heart of a boy torn from family, country, and way of life. Eire was 11 at the time he was shipped off to the US to live with strangers, and the fire still burns in him at the injustice of it. This fury propels his memoir, which is by turns cloying, sentimental, repetitious, and meandering. (Eire can, and does, go on for paragraphs about the shape of clouds. Federico Lorca he is not.) But readers looking for insight into one of the century's most "successful" revolutions will come away from Waiting for Snow with a fresh perspective on a crucial period of Cuban, and world, history. --Shawn Conner, Amazon.ca

  
   

• Fidel Castro Handbook

  George Galloway

  
  
   

• Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

  Graham T. Allison, Philip Zelikow

  
  
   

• Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-building in Jamaica

  Jean Besson

  
  
   

• Missiles in Cuba: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro, and the 1962 Crisis (American Ways (Paperback))

  Mark J. White

  
  
   

• The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Penguin History)

  C.L.R. James

  
  
   

• Arsenio Rodriguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music (Studies in Latin American & Caribbean Music)

  David Garcia

  
  
   

• Young, Gifted and Black: The Story of Trojan Records

  Michael De Koningh, Laurence Cane-Honeysett

  
  
   

• Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam

  Lawrence Freedman

  
  
   

• The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)

  Sheldon M. Stern

  
  
   

• One Hell of a Gamble

  Aleksandr Fursenko, Timot Naftali

  
  
   

• Republic of Pirates

  Coli Woodward

  
  
   

• The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (Envisioning Cuba) (Envisioning Cuba)

  Samuel Farber

  
  
   

• Rastafari: Roots and Ideology (Utopianism & Communitarianism)

  Barry Chevannes

  
  
   

• My Life

  Fidel Castro

  
  
   

• Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War: Authorised Edition with Corrections Made by Che Guevara (Che Guevara Publishing Project)

  Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

  
  
   

• Che Guevara (Pocket Biographies) (Pocket Biographies) (Pocket Biographies)

  Andrew Sinclair

  
  
   

• The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History

  Don Munton, David A. Welch