1960. because the chilly warfare reaches its top, so does postwar prosperity, and the yankee humans have a good time their optimism by way of electing as president the younger, charismatic John F. Kennedy. simply ninety miles from the USA, the Cuban individuals are celebrating the increase of Fidel Castro, their very own younger and charismatic populist chief who overthrew Batista's oppressive regime. worldwide, a emerging tide of Communism is soaking up one kingdom after one other. President Kennedy, vowing to maintain Communism out of the Western Hemisphere, understands he needs to confront Castro. it is going to suggest not just trying out his personal get to the bottom of, yet preserving a precarious balancing act. Kennedy can't enable the U.S. to be noticeable as vulnerable, but he can't be too competitive and danger nuclear annihilation. How then to weaken Castro's grip on Cuba--without forcing a showdown among the USA and the Soviet Union?

With assistance from his legal professional common, his more youthful brother Robert, the hot president, in influence, pronounces a mystery struggle opposed to Fidel Castro, enlisting the CIA and Cuban refugees. in the course of the following few years, the Kennedys and Castro have interaction within the most threatening and covert duel of the chilly conflict, a fierce vendetta that might take the area to the edge of nuclear confrontation.

Now, during this robust, eye-opening new publication, William B. Breuer finds the startling fact in the back of the Cuban trouble of the early Nineteen Sixties. From the Bay of Pigs to Guantanamo Bay and the October '62 missile situation, Breuer exposes how John and Robert Kennedy labored jointly to extend the clandestine, occasionally unlawful actions to put off Castro. Vendetta! is a riveting account of contemporary background, whole with spies, saboteurs, guerrillas, homicide plots, and kidnappings, informed within the hard-hitting, dramatic type that has received the writer severe acclaim as a chronicler of army intrigue.

Based on new firsthand interviews with a number of the those who directed and took part within the Kennedys' mystery conflict, Vendetta! contains candid memories from a number of presidency officers who're conversing approximately those occasions for the 1st time, between them, W. Raymond Wannall, former assistant director of the FBI, and Theodore Shackley, the CIA reputable who directed the covert activities from Miami. As this attention-grabbing bankruptcy of recent day intrigue unfolds, we're swept into the center of the motion, from stressful meetings within the Oval workplace to terrifying encounters at Guantanamo Bay, the place American-backed forces stood outnumbered and surrounded through Cuban troops. Vendetta! is William B. Breuer at his very best--real-life espionage, political truth and folly, exciting experience, and intrigue.

Critical popularity of William B. Breuer

SHADOW WARRIORS

"Absorbing . . . with colourful yarns . . . as compatible for severe scholars of historical past as for fanatics of cloak-and-dagger mayhem, army style." --Publishers Weekly

"An engrossing story of unsung heroes and high-risk missions . . . penetrates the little-known espionage, propaganda, and guerrilla operations of the Korean War." --Kirkus Reviews

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"A precious source . . . hugely recommended." --Booklist