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- catalog abstract ""Conflicting Missions is an account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964-65 - where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 1,000 mercenaries controlled by the CIA - and, finally, to the dramatic dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola in 1975-1976, which stopped the South African advance on Luanda and doomed Henry Kissinger's major covert operation there. The Cuban victory damaged U.S. and South African prestige, weakened detente, and gave heart to black Africans."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12401397.
- catalog coverage "Africa Foreign relations 1960-".
- catalog coverage "Africa Foreign relations Cuba.".
- catalog coverage "Africa Foreign relations United States.".
- catalog coverage "Cuba Foreign relations 1959-".
- catalog coverage "Cuba Foreign relations 1959-1990.".
- catalog coverage "Cuba Foreign relations Africa.".
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations 1945-1989.".
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations Africa.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Conflicting Missions is an account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964-65 - where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 1,000 mercenaries controlled by the CIA - and, finally, to the dramatic dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola in 1975-1976, which stopped the South African advance on Luanda and doomed Henry Kissinger's major covert operation there. The Cuban victory damaged U.S. and South African prestige, weakened detente, and gave heart to black Africans."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Castro's Cuba, 1959-1964 -- Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria -- Flee! The White Giants Are Coming! -- Castro Turns to Central Africa -- Che in Zaire -- A Successful Covert Operation -- American Victory -- Cubans in the Congo -- Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau -- Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975 -- The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire -- The Gathering Storm: Angola, January-October 1975 -- South Africa's Friends -- Pretoria Meets Havana -- Cuban Victory -- Repercussions -- Looking Back.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-538) and index.".
- catalog extent "xix, 552 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Conflicting missions.".
- catalog identifier "0807826472 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807854646 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Conflicting missions.".
- catalog isPartOf "Envisioning Cuba".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Conflicting missions.".
- catalog spatial "Africa Foreign relations 1960-".
- catalog spatial "Africa Foreign relations Cuba.".
- catalog spatial "Africa Foreign relations United States.".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog spatial "Cuba Foreign relations 1959-".
- catalog spatial "Cuba Foreign relations 1959-1990.".
- catalog spatial "Cuba Foreign relations Africa.".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations 1945-1989.".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations Africa.".
- catalog subject "327.729106/09/046 21".
- catalog subject "Cold War.".
- catalog subject "DT38.9.C9 G57 2002".
- catalog subject "National liberation movements Africa.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Castro's Cuba, 1959-1964 -- Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria -- Flee! The White Giants Are Coming! -- Castro Turns to Central Africa -- Che in Zaire -- A Successful Covert Operation -- American Victory -- Cubans in the Congo -- Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau -- Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975 -- The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire -- The Gathering Storm: Angola, January-October 1975 -- South Africa's Friends -- Pretoria Meets Havana -- Cuban Victory -- Repercussions -- Looking Back.".
- catalog title "Conflicting missions : Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 / Piero Gleijeses.".
- catalog type "text".