The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American's Fight to Liberate Cuba

by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss

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William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of Cuba. He led one band of guerrillas, and Che Guevara another, and together they swept through the country, ultimately forcing corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista from power. In just a year of fighting, the American revolutionary had altered the landscape of the Cold War. But Morgan believed they were fighting to liberate Cuba. Then Fidel Castro canceled elections, seized properties, and imprisoned Morgan’s fellow freedom fighters. Even Morgan’s own house mysteriously blew up. But The Comandante is...Read more
  • ISBN10 1493050206
  • ISBN13 9781493050208
  • Publish Date 1 June 2022 (first published 1 January 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
  • Imprint The Lyons Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 288
  • Language English