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3/19/2013 2 Comments Rebels on the Mountain re-released with new cover and promo as well as corrected listing on AmazonGood ReadAMAZON INCORRECTLY LISTED Rebels on the Mountain as non-fiction when it was first released at the beginning of 2012. Granted, it's based on historical events and possibly presents them more accurately than self-serving histories of Castro's revolution written by propagandists. It also deals honestly with racial bigotry in America that greatly influenced U.S. Foreign policy towards the island nation. Famous personalities such as Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Ernest Hemingway, and Fulgencio Batista appear in it, and much of the dialog attributed to them is taken from their own writings. But still it is a work of fiction. Rebels on the Mountain is an epic tale of a forbidden romance set in the time of Fidel Castro's insurrection to depose the U.S.-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista. An interracial couple, a Cuban mulata with African roots and an American soldier/spy, seek a safe haven in a world in which their love is not welcome in either of their native lands. Based on historical events, it reveals men and women fighting and loving amid the chaos and uncertainty of revolutionary Cuba. The action and adventure flows from the mountain camp of the Fidelistas at the eastern end of the island to the halls of wealth and power in Havana at the western end. Familiar personalities play their roles in Rebels on the Mountain, including Ernesto Che Guevara and Ernest Hemingway. Lesser known though equally important characters such as Camilo Cienfuegos, arguably Fidel's most important lieutenant, and Herbert Matthews, the reporter from the New York Times who introduced America to the Cuban insurrection, influence the revolution as well as the underlying love story in Rebels on the Mountain.
Most know how the revolution ended, but few understand how a band of three hundred outcasts and outlaws defeated a modern, well-equipped and well-trained army of forty thousand, and elevated Fidel Castro to the heights of power in the Caribbean or how the United States lost control of the island nation. That is the surprise that Rebels on the Mountain delivers.
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Jack Durish
3/22/2013 09:42:19 am
Please let me know how you like it.
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