Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami

by Eric Driggs, Vincent Houghton, Vince Houghton

Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541774574
• ISBN13: 9781541774575
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.8"