Bay of Pigs: CIA’s Cuban Disaster, April 1961 by Phil Carradice (English) Paperb

By Phil Carradice. Badly planned, badly organised, the affair was littered with mistakes from start to finish – not least with an inept performance by John F Kennedy and his new administration. When things began to go wrong with the landings at Playa Larga and Playa Giron on the southern coast of Cuba President Kennedy and his advisers began overruling military decisions with the result that the invading Brigade 2506 – made up of Cuban exiles – was left with little or no air cover, limited ammunition and no easy escape.

Phil Carradice Bay of Pigs (Paperback) Cold War 1945-1991

Author: Phil Carradice. He, like Nikita Khrushchev, thought Kennedy was weak: the Cuban Missile Crisis of the following year was almost an inevitable consequence of the disaster. Title: Bay of Pigs. Series: Cold War 1945-1991.