Castro

by Sean Connolly

Published 31 May 2002
Castro - A Beginner's Guide introduces the Cuban 'commander-in-chief' who since seizing power in 1959 has fashioned a communist society that has inspired international admiration and antagonized his superpower neighbour, the United States. Learn how Castro outlasted contemporaries Khrushchev, Kennedy, Mao and Nixon in order to enter the new millennium as 'the last Cold Warrior'.