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No account of Fidel Castro's rise to power is complete without mention of the failed attacks of July 26, 1953, on the Cuban army garrisons at Moncada and Bayamo. Yet no single volume to date has offered a comprehensive assessment of the assault that set the Cuban Revolution into motion and for which the 26 of July Movement was named. In this thorough study, Antonio Rafael de la Cova views this initial overthrow attempt as a propaganda victory that marked the start of Castro's ascent to national power. Drawing from three decades of interviews with more than one hundred participants - including surviving rebels, military and government personnel, and politicians - de la Cova screens historical facts from popular fictions to ...
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No account of Fidel Castro's rise to power is complete without mention of the failed attacks of July 26, 1953, on the Cuban army garrisons at Moncada and Bayamo. Yet no single volume to date has offered a comprehensive assessment of the assault that set the Cuban Revolution into motion and for which the 26 of July Movement was named. In this thorough study, Antonio Rafael de la Cova views this initial overthrow attempt as a propaganda victory that marked the start of Castro's ascent to national power. Drawing from three decades of interviews with more than one hundred participants - including surviving rebels, military and government personnel, and politicians - de la Cova screens historical facts from popular fictions to build an accurate account of this turning point in Cuban history and the Cold War.

In July of 1953, aided by his brother Raúl, Fidel Castro led 160 sparsely armed and poorly trained followers in simultaneous assaults on two Cuban army posts, declaring as his goal the restoration of constitutional democracy on the island. Skirmishes lasted only minutes on both fronts as the insurgents failed to take the garrisons and were killed, captured, or dispersed without contingency plans. A master of manipulation, Castro was later able to recast this humiliating military defeat as a political victory when Major General Fulgencio Batista's troops summarily executed more than fifty rebel prisoners, garnering the ire of the people.

De la Cova chronicles the assaults and their aftermath, with a special focus on countering false statements later made by Castro at his subsequent trial and in his published defense speech History Will Absolve Me - a required textfor Cuban schoolchildren to this day. Through research and interviews, de la Cova brings to light the persistent falsehoods told of atrocities committed by Batista's soldiers and Castro's rebels. The myths surrounding the assault provided superb fodder for building support for the successful guerrilla campaign that brought Castro to power in 1959. Assessing the impact of this mythology, de la Cova presents a detailed survey of the lasting importance of the Moncada attack and its place in history as the birth of the Cuban revolution.

What People Are Saying

Humberto Fontova
"Few topics remain as shrouded in humbug as the Cuban Revolution. A barrier of strict taboos has hindered researchers in this field, but de la Cova - to the immense benefit of anyone interested in facts - crosses that barrier and thus debunks the most cherished tenets of Castro apologia. In this book we see Fidel Castro as a shrewd megalomaniac with little regard for human life and with a clear plan for Cuba. De la Cova has a fanatical penchant for ascertaining facts. The result is this fascinating and groundbreaking book, surely a landmark in Cuba scholarship."--(Humberto Fontova, author of Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant and Exposing The Real Che Guevara and The Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him)
Jay Mallin
"Though the Cuban civil war of the late 1950s has been well-documented, not as widely known outside of Cuba is an attack made in July 1953 by a band of rebels led by Fidel Castro against the large Moncada barracks. Though the attack failed, it signaled the emergence of Castro on the national scene. Minute by minute, step by step, Antonio de la Cova has traced the background and action of these events. The result of three decades of in-depth research, delving through primary documents, and interviewing survivors, The Moncada Attack is a tour de force and places de la Cova in the front ranks of historians writing about Cuba."--(Jay Mallin, Sr., author of Covering Castro: Rise and Decline of Cuba's Communist Dictator)
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
"From the beginning of the Cuban Republic on May 20, 1902, there had never been as bloody and tragic a day in Cuban history as July 26, 1953 when Fidel Castro sought to make a name for himself with an armed attack on the Moncada garrison in Santiago de Cuba. Antonio de la Cova's book constitutes the most thorough and serious historical account ever written of that infamous episode in Cuban history."--(U.S. Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Florida's Twenty-First District)
Paquito DRivera
"Since the early 1950s, Castro's revolution has been a great source of myths, false or over-inflated statements, and political fairy tales. Finally, Antonio de la Cova gives us a well-documented book that demystifies the past and tells what really happened on that sad, legendary day of July 26, 1953, at the Moncada barracks."--(Paquito D'Rivera, author of My Sax Life: A Memoir

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781570036729
  • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
  • Publication date: 6/28/2007
  • Pages: 488
  • Sales rank: 842,614
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

A native of Havana, Antonio Rafael de la Cova is an assistant professor of Latino studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He holds a Ph.D. in history from West Virginia University and is the author of Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio José Gonzales.

Table of Contents


List of Illustrations     ix
Preface     xi
Introduction     xxv
Growing Up under Three Different Names     1
"There is nothing unusual going on"     32
"On Sunday, Cuba will be in flames"     60
"Shoot at those wearing tennis shoes"     81
"We are going into history"     121
"That savagery cannot be blamed on Batista"     138
"You do not kill ideas"     174
"A leader is born"     203
"History definitively, will say it all"     228
The "Grand Task of Cuban Reconstruction"     249
Abbreviations Used in the Appendixes     259
Rebel Participants in the Insurrection of July 26, 1953     261
Casualties     267
Civilians Acquitted in Case 37     271
Defense Attorneys and Their Case 37 Clients     273
"Manifesto to the Nation"     275
Gustavo Arcos, letter from Cuba, July 26, 2003     279
Notes     281
Bibliography     353
Index     363
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