Newly married Juan Ranz digs into his family's troubled past beginning with the suicide of his father's first wife, Juan's aunt, and finds parallels in his relationships marked by miscommunication and the need for human contact.

A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native home.

Che's most important work combines a description of the Cuban Revolution with an analysis of the role of individual humans in transforming the structures of capitalist society.

In 'Kennedy's Wars' noted historian Lawrence Freedman draws on the best of Cold War scholarship and newly released government documents to illuminate Kennedy's approach to war and his efforts for peace.

From its independence from Spain in 1898 until the 1960s, Cuba was dominated by the political and economic presence of the United States.

The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction.

A new investigation into President Kennedy's murder claims that his administration had planned a coup in Cuba to take place in December of 1963, a plan that backfired when Mafia elements that had infiltrated the coup plot decided to ...

An account of the American attempt to overthrow the Castro government in Cuba through an invasion of the island in 1961.

In this remarkable testimony, Cuban novelist and anthropologist Miguel Barnet presents the narrative of 105-year-old Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as fugitive in the wilderness, and as a soldier in the Cuban War of Independence.

"This book includes never before published material, such as Che's televised speech outlining the issues posed by Kennedy's plan.