Bay of Pigs: CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961

This account of the disastrous invasion of Cuba funded and directed by the United States is "a readable, accessible introduction to the topic" (H-Net).

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 ...