Fidel's Cuba: A Revolution in Pictures by Osvaldo Salas, Roberto Salas, Jon Lee Anderson (Foreword by), Gregory Tozian (Introduction)

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On New Year's Day, 1959, a ragtag group of bearded revolutionaries overthrew the U.S.-supported dictatorship in the tropical paradise of Cuba, just 90 miles from Miami. They installed the charismatic Fidel Castro as leader of the island nation, and to this day, few events in modern history have retained the mystery and emotion of hte Cuban Revolution and Castro's rise to power. This dramatic tale has never been told with more visual impact than in Fidel's Cuba. This vivid collection of photographs, shot by father-and-son team Osvaldo and Roberto Salas, captures the fascinating history of Castro and his country in powerful images and rousing storytelling.

Never before seen in the West, these photographs were taken in the decades following the revolution. After the 1959 overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista, Castro personally asked the Salases -- then living in New York -- to return to their native country and document the unfolding drama of the fledgling communist nation. Osvaldo was appointed head of photography of Revolution, the national newspaper, and Roberto traveled with Castro as his personal photographer.

The images captured in this stunning gallery-quality collection take readers through treacherous mountain passes with gun-toting revolutionaries and into the cigar smoke-filled back rooms where Castro met with the legendary Che Guevara; from the fishing boat of expatriate author Ernest Hemingway to the crisis-charged floor of the United Nations assembly. Accompanying their historic photographs are fascinating, facing-page remembrances of the Salases, whose hertofore undisclosed insights provide a spellbinding picture of a nation and its leader.

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