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100 1  Sallah, Michael,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Yankee comandante :|bthe untold story of courage, 
       passion, and one American's fight to liberate Cuba /
       |cMichael Sallah and Mitch Weiss. 
264  1 Guilford, Connecticut :|bLyons Press,|c©2015. 
300    xii, 274 pages :|billustrations, map ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and 
       index. 
520    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 to liberate Cuba. Then Fidel Castro canceled 
       elections, seized properties, and imprisoned Morgan's 
       fellow freedom fighters. Even Morgan's own house 
       mysteriously blew up. But The Comandante is about more 
       than just the revolution. It's the story of two people in 
       love, pressured by government agents and mobsters vying to
       control a nation that soon brought the world to the brink 
       of nuclear destruction. In the mountains, Morgan met Olga 
       Rodriguez, a beautiful, fiery nurse, whom he soon married.
       Together, amid their firestorm romance, they decided to 
       take a stand and take back the government from Castro and 
       Guevara. The newlyweds began running arms to prepare for a
       counterrevolution, soon caught in a cloak-and-dagger web 
       among Castro's forces; the Mob, which controlled Havana; 
       and the CIA's preparations for the Bay of Pigs Invasion. 
       But one of Morgan's guards betrayed him to Castro, who 
       threw the counterrevolutionary in prison, placing his wife
       and their two daughters under house arrest. The couple 
       smuggled secret messages to each other until Olga 
       ultimately escaped by drugging her captors. Before she 
       could free her husband, though, a junta tribunal tried and
       sentenced him to death by firing squad. Drawing on 
       declassified FBI, CIA, and Army intelligence records as 
       well as Olga's diaries, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors 
       Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss skillfully reveal the inner
       workings of the Cuban Revolution while detailing the 
       incredible love story of a rebel nurse and an American 
       street hero who left their mark on history. 
600 10 Morgan, William,|d1928-1961. 
650  0 Government, Resistance to|zCuba|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Revolutionaries|zCuba|vBiography. 
651  0 Cuba|xHistory|yRevolution, 1959. 
700 1  Weiss, Mitch,|eauthor. 
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