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The Bay of Pigs. By Howard Jones. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xviii, 237 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-19-517383-3.)
In The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones has given us the finest narrative yet written about that calamitous event in United States-Cuban relations. Writing with an arresting style and drawing on a bevy of English-language sources, Jones re-creates the drama of the Bay of Pigs. He brings to life not only the operation on Cuba's southern shore but also the tensions among policy makers in the U.S. government as they tried to destroy the Cuban Revolution. Woven together, these two threads of the story fashion a tapestry of tragedy and hubris. The ill-fated invasion remains a tragedy because of those who lost their lives in the assault against, or in the defense...