Guantanamo, USA: The Untold History of America's Cuban Outpost Review

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(More customer reviews)Guantanamo, USA. What a remarkable book! Stephen Schwab has presented a detailed, highly researched, and beautifully written text on the history of Guantanamo Naval Base. From the U.S. involvement in the Spanish-American War to liberate Cuba from Spain through Guantanamo's role in World Wars I and II and the Cold War years, the reader is caught up in the rationale for developing a naval base that would not only show the imperalistic strategy of the U.S.A. but the necessity of securing the best location to house a strong naval fleet protecting the Caribbean, the Panama Canal, and the Americas at large.
Many of my generation will only remember the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 60's and the more recent use of the base to house and/or detain refugees and prisoners of war as reasons to justify our Cuban presence. Schwab, however, gives us a far broader and more objective picture of this presence, providing insights and assessments of a relationship that has served both the Cuban and American nations. Mutual benefits have been at times economic, political, and military. It reads well and captures the vital influence of the Roosevelts and other significant statesmen in the evolution of this sole surviving naval base in the Caribbean Sea. All in all, Schwab provides a balanced perspective of an American proprietary view of the base at Guantanamo in contrast to Cuba's mixed response to our presence on their shores for over a century.

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