Cuba

With a 1958 portable typewriter in his suitcase, the writer wanders Havana's crumbling back alleys, bullet-sprayed museums, and grand hotels....

Soon after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States captured hundreds of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan and around the world....

When young president Kennedy came to power in 1961, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was eager to test his mettle from the start....

Guillermo Vicente Vidal's memoir chronicles his journey from Castro's Cuba to the United States - a tapestry of his coming of age, a broken family, and disorientation of political unrest....

When the USS Huron went down off the coast of North Carolina in 1877, she took most of her crew with her and a mystery about why they were headed ...

When Mike’s friend asks Kelly and Mike to join his wife and him on a trip to a Cuban island, it’s an invitation they can’t resist. Mike’s dream of fly-fishing the flats on the exotic island is quickly replaced when he’s asked by the local constable to help solve a murder....

Usnavy has always been a true believer. When the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, he was just a young man and eagerly signed on for all of its promises....

Within a month of becoming president, the issue of Communist Cuba became central to John F. Kennedy's administration. He attempted to align disadvantaged groups against communism....

Robert Dallek offers here a look at the life of William Dodd, an American diplomat stationed in Nazi Germany....

Fidel Castro is Dead! A party erupts in Little Havana, in Miami. Michael Tallen’s editor sends him to get to the heart of the story from the ...

Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castros Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959.....

He spoke six languages, had an exceptional memory, hated the Soviet system and thirsted for revenge, was fit as a fiddle, a dead shot, enthusiastic and eminently malleable....

Breathtaking, soulful, and profound, The Mortifications is an intoxicating family saga and a timely, urgent expression of longing for one's true homeland....

The thesis of this book is a simple one: On November 22, 1963, the U.S. national-security establishment violently removed John Kennedy from the presidency through assassination....

Volume 2 describes how Paulina's personal crisis became a powerful motivator to overcome obstacles and demonstrated the power and potential of the human spirit....

Blackford Oakes launches a wild attempt to kill Castro on behalf of the CIA. Ever since the botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro has run amok. He has executed thousands....

The Korticos are from a well-endowed pygmy tribe in West Africa; the Mandingas are descended from a tribe of tall Ghanaians. Both families have been brought to Cuba as slaves....

October 8, 2017 sparked the Tubbs Fire: the most destructive California wildfire at that time. Entire communities were burned to the ground, and scores of people lost their lives.

Cuba occupies a place of undisputed fascination in the American psyche....

This novella takes place on the tragic voyage of the SS St. Louis, a ship the Nazi's allowed to sail out of Germany carrying the souls of 926 Jewish refugees....