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Che Forever    by Dan Brook
Price: $0.99 USD. 7180 words. Published on April 27, 2009. .

In this bilingual English/Español edition, Che Forever is a sympathetic and poetic biographical sketch detailing the past, promise, potential, and power of the dynamic ideas and ideology of Che Guevara, the iconic Latin American revolutionary. Read it and surprise yourself!
At the Edge of the Abyss: A Declassified Documentary History of the Cuban Missile Crisis    by Lenny  Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 95760 words. Published on November 10, 2009. .

In the last two weeks of October 1962, the world came closer to nuclear warfare than it ever has. This volume is a collection of declassified documents from American and Soviet archives, detailing the history of those two weeks. Preface gives an overview and timeline of the crisis.
Onyx Ops: The Paladin Papers    by Stephen Austen
Price: $0.99 USD. 10260 words. Published on February 12, 2010. .

Masters of black ops ruthlessly navigate today’s globalization. From World War II; to the Cuban Revolution and the Kennedy assassination; through the CIA’s Operation Phoenix and the oil fields of Vietnam; it leads into today’s Afghanistan. Must-read, fast-paced fiction with high-impact insights into the geopolitics of global resources. You will think about this long after you put it down
Ogoun's Bomb - A Novel    by Pentland Hick
Price: $4.95 USD. 81360 words. Published by Bondage Books on February 19, 2010. .

Ogoun lives in Maronterre, a fictional country between Haiti and the Dominican Republic in Hispaniola: Voodoo country, where the Ogoun family are notorious on the black side. Ogoun is planning a coup at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, and when Khrushchev is forced to pull his nuclear missiles out of Cuba the ships carrying them have to pass the next Island, Hispaniola. A plot is hatched...
American Decision Making During the Cuban Missile Crisis    by Kevin Mahoney
Price: $2.99 USD. 11630 words. Published by Punked Books on April 18, 2010. .

This dissertation examines the deliberations of the American government during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. Much has been written on this subject by those involved, either within the decision making process, or on the periphery - for instance, McGeorge Bundy, Abram Chayess, Raymond Garthoff, Ray Cline, and Robert Kennedy. However, none of these totally agree on what happened.
Broken Odyssey    by Noel Carroll
Price: $2.99 USD. 114160 words. Published on August 3, 2010. .

Carl McCormic longs to see Cuba, the land of his mother’s birth. Opportunity arrives in a beautiful young woman who only recently fled the island. Anger smoldering within her, she wants him to smuggle her back in – to destroy the powerful father she left behind!
Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK    by Gus Russo
Price: $9.99 USD. 281870 words. Published by Bancroft Press on August 26, 2010. .

Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Castro openly threatened to retaliate. Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald went to the Cuban embassy in Mexico, announcing he would kill America's president in exchange for sanctuary in Havana. Live By the Sword ends 35 years of public mistrust and confusion over the Kennedy assassination.
Boxing For Cuba: An Immigrant's Story of Despair, Endurance, & Redemption    by Guillermo Vicente Vidal
Price: $9.99 USD. 89190 words. Published by Samizdat Creative  on March 22, 2011. .

Vidal writes about his family's participation in events that forever altered U.S.-Cuban relations after an effort to free children from the threat of Communist rule sparked Operation Peter Pan. From chance encounters with Fidel Castro and Robert F. Kennedy to life in a dismal Catholic orphanage in Colorado, Vidal perseveres to embrace life as a proud and successful Cuban American.
The Cuban Connection    by Rick Deiss
Price: $0.99 USD. 106750 words. Published on June 10, 2011. .

In the early 1960s the CIA made several attempts to kill Castro. Shortly afterwards JFK was assassinated. Was the Cuban Government resposible? Was there a man on the grassy knoll? The Sea Demons go into Cuba to find and extract the man responsible for the death of a sitting American President. Soon they find themselves in the middle of a Cuban revolution, their quarry protected in a fortress.
Laughing under Castro    by Modesto Arocha
Price: $0.99 USD. 24680 words. Published by Alexandria Library  on July 30, 2011. .

After the Cuban Revolution (1959), there would be no more political jokes told in public against the government. But the Cuban people did not lose their sense of humor, now took it underground. In 1990 a man living in Cuba, Modesto Arocha, began to compile these jokes about the Revolution and managed to smuggle his collection out of the country. Laughing under Castro is that book.