Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Reprint. Revised ed. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by author. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed to Ambassador Herman Cohen.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. xix, [1], 552, [4] p. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. From Wikipedia: "Piero Gleijeses (born 1944 in Venice, Italy) is a professor of United States foreign policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He is best known for his scholarly studies of Cuban foreign policy under Fidel Castro, which earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and has also published several works on US intervention in Latin America. He is the only foreign scholar to have been allowed access to the Cuba's Castro-era government archives. His 2002 book, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959 1976, was an exhaustive re-examination of the Cuban involvement in the decolonization of Africa. Hailed by Jorge Dominguez as "the best study available of Cuban operations in Africa during the Cold War", it won the SHAFR's Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize for 2003. "