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Title: Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air National Guard's Covert Role at the Bay of Pigs by Warren A. Trest, Donald B. Dodd ISBN: 1-58838-021-1 Publisher: NewSouth Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A powerful and timely message
Comment: Collaboratively written by historians Warren Trest (USAF Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama) and Donald Dodd (Professor Emeritus of History, Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama), Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air National Guard's Covert Role at the Bay of Pigs is a riveting expose of the ill-fated 1961 Bay of Pigs attempted invasion of Cuba. Four Alabama Air National Guardsmen perished in the invasion, and the body of one of them was frozen as a war trophy in Cuba until 1978. Meticulously researched, and enhanced with black-and-white photographs, Wings of Denial is a powerful and timely message in view of today's rapidly evolving international conflicts about the deadly cost of unrestrained national hubris.
Rating: 3
Summary: Wings of Denial, the role of Washington in the Bay of Pigs
Comment: This book started out great and I was very excited about the information being presented. Then it seemed to get a little sidetracked on the story in Washington D.C. rather than what was going on in Guatemala, and I was slightly diasapointed overall. I have been researching the air war at the Bay of Pigs and have read many books on the subject. I found several minor errors in the book. For example, the photo on page 86 identifies the man as Jose "Pepe" San Ramon when in fact the man is Major Pedro Luis Diaz-Lanz. That does not overshadow the book, but it made me wonder what else was incorrect. Never the less, I do recommend the book to anyone wanting to get an overall sense of the errors made at the Bay of Pigs on a political as well as military sense. I did find it very interesting to read the follow up on some of the principle Guardsmen after the Bay of Pigs.
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Title: Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs by Lynch L. Grayston, Grayston L. Lynch ISBN: 1574882376 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 by Aleksandr Fursenko, Timothy J. Naftali ISBN: 0393317900 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Bay of Pigs by Victor Andres Triay ISBN: 0813020905 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba (National Security Archive Documents Reader) by Peter Kornbluh ISBN: 1565844947 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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