Pretty much every Marxist Revolution was immediately undermined and attacked from the outside and within, from the bourgeoisie. The choice was crack down, or be defeated. For choosing not to be defeated, these states were derided as authoritarian by the west.
For example, check out the anti Castro terror campaigns backed by the CIA: https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Other-Side-History-Terrorism/dp/0745330401/ref=nodl_
You should definitely check out Benerson Little's <em>The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730</em>. It's full of good technical information that would help a writer in your situation get their bearings.
You won’t find any unbiased accounting of Cuban History in Cuba unfortunately. Not even pre-1959 history is unbiased as the current gov has created a narrative of those events leading up to 1959. The very best book on Cuban history in my opinion comes from the famed European historian Hugh Thomas in his book” Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom”. It’s dense and big, but the author writes well and it flows. It’s starts off with early early Cuban history and then chronologically works its way towards present day. Get the latest edition for the more recentish history. You’ll get the full full context if you read everything, but you can read from the Spanish-American war till present and gain a lot of context and understanding of how the Cuban nation came to be, what it’s been through and how we got to this point.
You might love this book. It’s about pirates but there’s loads of great info on maritime tactics in the age of sail.
In my understanding as just someone who is into tall ships, getting stable line on the horizon is kind of home base. Once you have the horizon lined up you can determine which stars are where and depending on the time of year you can tell which direction you’re looking in, even where you are in longitude and latitude. It’s a cool metaphor, huh? :)
I am wary, it is much better reviewed and states a different publisher, yet it uses the same cover as the poorly reviewed one? https://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Warfare-Ernesto-Che-Guevara/dp/149299748X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UJHWTOTBG0LA&dchild=1&keywords=guerrilla+warfare+che+guevara&qid=1633600223&sprefix=Guer%2Caps%2C999&sr=8-1
>I'm curious to know more about the cultural practices and technology adopted by pirates and their ships at the time - anyone got any recommendations?
I too had this exact question after reading some literature concerning the era.
This is what you're looking for: The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730 by Benerson Little https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Rovers-Practice-Techniques-1630-1730/dp/1574889117
I don't specifically recognize that from the book in question, it is probably another piece that he wrote on the subject. It turns out I mixed up titles between Che's book and Mao's book. While I'm not generally supportive of amazon, sometimes the easiest way to direct someone to a book is to give them a link to the amazon page so that they can know what they are looking for. That said, let me know if this link is an issue and I can remove it.
Those are all quite good, Death & Cos book is more of a coffee table book since it's cool looking and interesting. I've wanted to go for a while, but the wait is hours almost every night.
Liquid Intelligence is also fantastic, and it's a great reference book. I think Imbibe is a good magazine that a lot of people in the industry are fond of. A Bottle of Rum is an interesting, more historical type of read, but you might have heard of that. In a similar vein as Death and Co is PDT's recipe book. PDT is a few blocks from Death here in NYC, and it's just as lauded. You're not supposed to say it, but PDT stands for Please Don't Tell and you enter through a phone booth in another restaurant. Their cocktails are quite good.
Ultimately, I think if you have Liquid Intelligence you might want to get books that find interesting ways to explore your favorite spirit in more detail. Do you have a favorite drink or base?
>Basically us demands offensive missiles to be taken back. Negotiations. Russia says ok. Setup a Russia - US hotline. Doesn't sound very traumatic.
What? Jesus. No. That's all you got from it? The world came dangerously close to nuclear war and it was only thanks to the thinking of some very smart, level-headed men and a bit of luck that we're even here today.
Perfect example -- Google Khrushchev's second letter. (EDIT: Actually, this is a pretty good link on it.) Kennedy ignored it instead of getting antagonized even more. Do you really think Trump could do the same?
Finally, and I'm not meaning this as a slight against you -- but they really don't teach this in school anymore? If not, I strongly recommend you read One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs. Read it and imagine Trump in Kennedy's shoes. And then imagine if we would seriously be here today.
I know nothing about your show, but I'll try to watch it soon. My question is, have you read "And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails"? It may be more about history and the history of a specific alcohol than actually drunk people talking about history, but I really enjoyed the book.