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Author Gleijeses, Piero.

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

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

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Description xix, 552 p. : ill., maps.
Series Envisioning Cuba
Envisioning Cuba.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-538) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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 -- 1945-1989.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807826472 (alk. paper)

 
    
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