Author: Taber, Robert
Title: M-26, Biography of a Revolution
Description: New York, Lyle Stuart, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.25 in. pp. 348. Black cloth boards over red spine. Black title to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Lower back corner bumped. Rubbing to cover and edges of dustjacket; small tears to bottom edge and dustjacket flap Ownership ink stamp to bottom of title page (see comments). Inked ownership stamp reads: "Fair Play for Cuba Com. 799 Broadway, New York 3, N.Y.", indicating this copy was "on the shelves" at the Fair Play for Cuba Committee offices in New York. The author was the founder of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee that advocated in the USA for Castro's cause. This was their house copy. Robert Taber was a CBS newsman who went to Cuba in 1953 and fully documents from the inside the rise of the Castro regime over the reigning dictator Batista.Tabor lived with the rebels and recorded many details of the early Cuban revolution, and he answers the questions (as the dustjacket queries): "How could twelve men defy a modern Army of thirty-five thousand? How could a few men with rifles face fourteen battalions and a modern air force and survive?" Taber was the founder of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee that advocated in the USA for Castro's cause. This book was published one year before the Cuban Missile Crisis. This book is hand-stamped with the 1961 address of that committee. Very Good Plus / Good Plus .

Keywords: Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Cuban Missle Crisis, Radical Movements, Revolutionary, Latin America