BAY OF PIGS : AN ORAL HISTORY OF BRIGADE 2506

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This is the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion, told for the first time in the words of the idealistic participants who came together in April 1961 to overthrow Fidel Castro's dictatorship. Most of the approximately 1,500 men of Brigade 2506 were captured by Castro's forces in swamps near Playa Girón and jailed until December 1962. About 114 died.

Combining oral history and traditional narrative form, Victor Triay tells us who individual members of the brigade were and what they fought for. As one veteran, only eighteen at the time of the invasion, recalls, "It was my turn to do something for Cuba. Probably the purest thing I have ever done in my life was to make the decision to go." Triay describes the volunteers' recruitment, training, combat experience, and the wretched months of their imprisonment. He also presents the women they left behind, including three who were widowed by the invasion.

By Victor Andres Triay, In English, Hardcover, 224 Pages, 2001.