Bay of Pigs

Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House.

Badly planned, badly organized, the affair was littered with mistakes from start to finish - not least with an inept performance by John F.

Kennedy and his new administration. Supposedly an attempt by Cuban exiles to regain their homeland, the whole operation was funded and equipped by the USA.

This book explores how Fidel Castro made great play of his success and American failure at the Bay of Pigs.