"The first complete and comprehensive work on these important, unique programs. . . . An interesting, humane, yet tragic component of the post-1959 Cuban experience and the Cold War in general."--Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Amherst College "The ordeal began for the children] when their parents told them they had to travel alone and that they had to keep the upcoming trip a secret. The most powerful parts of the book are their accounts. . . . Through interviews with many of the participants-the children and their parents, the coordinators of the airlift, those in the underground in Cuba and the...
"The first complete and comprehensive work on these important, unique programs. . . . An interesting, humane, yet tragic component of the post-1959 Cu...
From the interviews: "My pregnant] wife once asked me, How is it possible you are not thinking of your child? I told her, It is precisely because of that child and the two others I have here that I am going. I plan to return to my fatherland, and I don t want a Communist homeland. "-- Jorge Marquet
"One of the sad things that has happened over this period in the history of Cuba is that historians have not given credit to the idealism of those who turned against the revolution. We were really full of good will and wanted to make Cuba better."--Eduardo Zayas-Bazan
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From the interviews: "My pregnant] wife once asked me, How is it possible you are not thinking of your child? I told her, It is precisely beca...
