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A very interesting history, we have enjoyed reading this book and highly recommend it.
Very well documented history from 1898 to present.
The first comprehensive history of Guantanamo from its origins to the present.
Established as America first foreign naval base following the Spanish-American war, Guantanamo is now more often thought of as our Devil’s island, the gulag of our times.
This book takes readers beyond the orange jumpsuit detainees of today's headlines.
This particular item was a Library book that judging by the like new appearance of its pages was never read.
Dust cover has been protected by clear plastic and it also in like new condition. Published in 2009, Hardcover of 380 pages.
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A panoramic history of Guantanamo from Teddy Roosevelt to twenty-first
century terrorism. Exhaustively researched and balanced, it will be
recognized as the definitive history of America's most important
overseas naval base."
- Brian Latell , author of After Fidel: Raul Castro
and the Future of Cuba's Revolution "Schwab has done a masterful job in
this up-to-date history of our naval base in Cuba and the ongoing
controversies--both domestic and international--its presence has
generated from 1898 to the present."
- Don Bohning , author of The Castro
Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations in Cuba, 1959-1965 "A fascinating
look at the role of Guantnamo in U.S-Cuban relations that also
illuminates the naval base's impact on Cuban history and politics."
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Jaime Suchlicki , author of Cuba: From Columbus to Castro "Exhaustively
researched, nicely written, and superbly analyzed, this history of the
United States's first foreign base will appeal to all those readers
interested in how Guantnamo has been the source of both friction and
compromise in U.S.-Cuban relations for more than a century."
-- Don Bohning ,
author of The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations in Cuba,
1959-1965, "A panoramic history of Guantánamo from Teddy Roosevelt to
twenty-first century terrorism. Exhaustively researched and balanced, it
will be recognized as the definitive history of America's most
important overseas naval base.". "A
fascinating look at the role of Guantánamo in U.S-Cuban relations that
also illuminates the naval base's impact on Cuban history and
politics."
- Howard Jones , author of The Bay of Pigs and Crucible of
Power, "Exhaustively researched, nicely written, and superbly analyzed,
this history of the United States's first foreign base will appeal to
all those readers interested in how Guantánamo has been the source of
both friction and compromise in U.S.-Cuban relations for more than a
century."- . . Well-researched, sharply
written, Schwab's book fills in the crucial gaps on this controversial
base, now as notorious as Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison."
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Publishers Weekly "This meticulously researched and important book
provides fresh historical perspective on a timely subject ... An
essential and authoritative addition to any library. Highly
recommended."-- Choice "[This book] is poised to be the definitive
history of this unusual military base. It does what all good history
should: it pulls readers out of the present, in which controversies
about detention centers dominate, and reminds them that 'Gitmo' has been
and continues to be so much more."
-- Proceedings, "A fascinating look
at the role of Guantánamo in U.S-Cuban relations that also illuminates
the naval base's impact on Cuban history and politics."
- Jaime Suchlicki
, author of Cuba: From Columbus to Castro, "A panoramic history of
Guantánamo from Teddy Roosevelt to twenty-first century terrorism.
Exhaustively researched and balanced, it will be recognized as the
definitive history of America's most important overseas naval base."
-
Brian Latell , author of After Fidel: Raul Castro and the Future of
Cuba's Revolution, "A fascinating look at the role of Guantanamo in
U.S-Cuban relations that also illuminates the naval base's impact on
Cuban history and politics."-
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