Free Download Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFCDVBR2 | 2024 | 8 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 235 MB
Author: Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
Narrator: Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington, DC, or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What’s less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry.
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