Descripción:
Memoirs of a Cuban university student who served as a paratrooper in Brigade 2506, the Bay of Pigs, as a political prisoner in the Castle of the Prince, and his freedom and long and successful exile in the United States.
Alberto J. Bolet was born in Vedado, Havana, Cuba, on December 14, 1941. In this book, written as a legacy for his children and grandchildren, he describes his childhood, the events leading to the Cuban revolution, his exile in Miami and life as a University student, and how he was recruited by the CIA. He gives a detailed description of life in the training camps in Guatemala and how he was trained as a Paratrooper in the Brigade 2506 that invaded Cuba at Playa Giron in April of 1961.
The story of the Brigade's combat experience, including the almost suicidal air war, is not well known in the US, much less their ordeal in Cuban prisons for 20 months until their eventual exchange for medicine and food on Christmas 1962.
There is also a detailed analysis of the policy failures leading to the defeat of the invasion and the brutal elimination of the counter-revolutionary movement by Castro and Soviet forces. Bolet’s brother in law was part of that struggle in the Escambray Mountains and his story is also presented in this book.
