Free Download Miguel A. Faria, "Cuba's Eternal Revolution through the Prism of Insurgency, Socialism, and Espionage"
English | ISBN: 1527510158 | 2023 | 243 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book not only relates the defining moments of the Cuban Revolution - such as the Moncada Barracks attack, the assault on Batista's Presidential Palace, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis - but also lesser-known events like the "War Against the Bandits"; the overseas adventures of Che Guevara in the Congo and Bolivia; Fidel Castro's possible prior knowledge of and involvement in JFK's assassination; Cuba's "silent war against the environment"; and ongoing foreign intelligence operations. The book contains information most readers and academicians may not be familiar with and utilizes major tomes as sources that have only been published in Spanish and so are not widely available to international audiences outside of Spain and Latin America. It will enlighten readers about the realities of the Cuban Revolution - its purported achievements as well as its definite shortcomings; its impact on world events in the last seven decades; and correct the record where needed - enhancing the fount of knowledge for further research by social scientists, historians, and political scientists.

Free Download Dr. Hal Klepak, "Churchill Comes of Age: Cuba 1895"
English | ISBN: 0750962259 | 2015 | 288 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
The untold story of Churchill's first international adventure, coming of age, and showing for the first time his exceptional characteristics-told with the help of original research into Spanish and Cuban archives and interviews

Free Download Ada Ferrer, Vivia Font (Narrator), "Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution"
English | ASIN: B0CTJ5DVLL | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:57:00 | 367 MB
During the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba barely fifty miles distant, the events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary emancipation. When Cuban planters and authorities saw the devastation of the neighboring colony, they rushed to fill the void left in the world market for sugar, to buttress the institutions of slavery and colonial rule, and to prevent "another Haiti" from happening in their own territory.
Freedom's Mirror follows the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred at the very moment that the Haitian Revolution provided a powerful and proximate example of slaves destroying slavery.

Free Download Even Sandvik Underlid, "Cuba Was Different Views of the Cuban Communist Party on the Collapse of Soviet and Eastern European Socialism "
English | ISBN: 900444288X | 2021 | 392 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Cuba Was Different explores Cuban Communist Party (PCC) views following the collapse of Eastern European and Soviet socialism through the lens of the official daily newspaper Granma (1989-1992) and interviews conducted later with Cuban PCC members who reflected back on that momentous period.

BBC Our World - Windsurf Escape: Cuba's Migration Crisis (2023)
English | Documentary | Size: 450 MB

Free Download Frommer's EasyGuide to Cuba (Easy Guides) by Claire Boobbyer
English | November 24, 2016 | ISBN: 1628872349 | 320 pages | EPUB | 23 Mb
With widespread travel to Cuba finally permitted to Americans, a large audience will enthusiastically welcome this authoritative guide written by a leading expert in travel to the Caribbean's largest island-nation. Claire Boobbyer, a British citizen who has been spending months each year in Cuba since 1998, is a frequent speaker on Cuba to prestigious travel organizations, a featured television commentator on Cuba for the BBC, a leader of tours to Cuba for the Smithsonian and other groups, a writer on Cuba for Britain's The Telegraph and other newspapers. She has carefully designed her 288-page Easy Guide to Cuba to emphasize her choices of the best facilities and attractions for those Americans who are now able to make the trip.

Free Download Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History by Ada Ferrer
English | September 7, 2021 | ISBN: 1501154559 | 576 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY

Free Download Eloy L. Nuñez, "Escape from Cuba: Personal Accounts of Those Who Fled Castro's Regime"
English | ISBN: 1476676046 | 2020 | 238 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
In 1959, Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba after overthrowing the government of Fulgencio Batista. In response, thousands of Cubans fled the island, mostly to the United States. This book tells the stories of these Cubans in exile, all of whom overcame great obstacles to escape the brutal Castro regime. Neither a history of Cuba nor of Castro, this book illuminates the underrepresented legacy of the Cuban Exile Community and celebrates their continued thriving in a new country.

Matanzas: The Cuba Nobody Knows By Miguel A. Bretos
2011 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0813038103 | PDF | 11 MB
"Bretos has not only conferred on his beloved Matanzas its rightful place in history but he has provided students and fans of Cuban history with a significant launching point into the future."- Miami Herald"A marvelously well-researched and engagingly written combination of urban biography and personal autobiography. . . . Erudite and highly instructive, enormously enhanced with outstanding illustrations."- ChoiceMatanzas is the Cuban city nearest the United States. Located on the north shore of the island of Cuba, on the Bay of Matanzas, sandwiched between Havana and Varadero, it is a mere ninety miles from Florida. The "Athens of Cuba," as it was known in the heyday of the nineteenth-century slave-driven, sugar-based boom, Matanzas is renowned for its cultural heritage.It is the birthplace of the traditional romantic danzón-Cuba's national dance-and the sensual rhythmic guaguancó, a product of the city's preeminence as a hub of Afro-Cuban culture. Matanzas is the only foreign place in which an American vice president was sworn into office. Matanceros engaged in heavy commercial trading with Boston merchants for decades, exporting sugar and importing hard granite cobblestones to pave the streets. It is the place where Cuban baseball and modern Cuban art began. The city was home to the country's first building wired for electricity, the first electric street cars, and the first public library,-yet most Americans have never heard of it.Miguel Bretos's fascinating history of his hometown seeks to remedy that oversight. Bretos arrived in the United States at age eighteen, but his family retains close ties to the city where they lived for generations. From the aboriginal Taínos to the coming of revolution, Bretos unfolds the Matanzas story with solid research, wit, clarity, and the kind of vivid detail that can come only from an insider.Miguel A. Bretos is retired as senior scholar from the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery and is the author of four books, including Cuba and Florida: An Exploration of a Historical Connection, 1593-1991.

From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 By Reinaldo Funes Monzote; Alex Martin
2008 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0807858587 | PDF | 5 MB
In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an interest in management and conservation for the shipbuilding industry. The sugar planters won a decisive victory in 1815, however, when they were allowed to clear extensive forests, without restriction, for cane fields and sugar production. This book is the first to consider Cuba's vital sugar industry through the lens of environmental history. Funes Monzote demonstrates how the industry that came to define Cuba--and upon which Cuba urgently depended--also devastated the ecology of the island.The original Spanish-language edition of the book, published in Mexico in 2004, was awarded the UNESCO Book Prize for Caribbean Thought, Environmental Category. For this first English edition, the author has revised the text throughout and provided new material, including a glossary and a conclusion that summarizes important developments up to the present.