Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean

by Alex von Tunzelmann and Alex Von Tunzelman

Book Overview

The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them on.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805090673
• ISBN13: 9780805090673
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 449 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Riveting! Expose of a triad of evil dictators!

This is a shocking story of Castro's Cuba, & the brutal dictators in Haiti & the Dominican Republic. It delves into Castro & Che, the relationship to Haiti & Dominican Republic, & the USA's almost blind diplomatic ties. I learned a lot I had never known and was shocked! There are a lot of really interesting pictures including Che G. dead with a toe tag after being shot by military police in Central America. It is a very in-depth read covering personalities, their family life, their brutality, and much more. This is really well written & researched, lots of footnotes of resources. I read this on a whim & I'm very glad I did, it was really eye opening to a lot of things I'd always wondered about, things you just don't hear the whole story about. I never even had heard of the insane, murdering dictator of Haiti, Papa Doc Duvalier! What a horror story! Its amazing the atrocities that whole countries full of people endure with no relief.