The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American's Fight to Liberate Cuba

by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss

Book Overview

William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of Cuba. He led one band of guerrillas, and Che Guevara another, and together they swept through the country, ultimately forcing corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista from power. In just a year of fighting, the American revolutionary had altered the landscape of the Cold War. But Morgan believed they were fighting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762792876
• ISBN13: 9780762792870
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

The story of one man love and courage

This book will take you on the ideals of a man that sacrificed his life for the good of the cuban prople and will give you the inside of the dictator/murderer of Fidel Castro and che ,Morgan as many other have been killed at the first moment they show signs of being anti communist