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underpants

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8. Ooh. Another "Havana Nocturne"

Reply to happybird (Original post)

Sun Apr 28, 2019, 06:13 PM

Apr 2019

THIS I have read and it's really good. It's a parallel story of Meyer Lansky and Fidel Castro.
Lansky had his eye on Cuba going back to when he was running penny pitching in NYC.
The Cuban Revolution was really a comedy of errors (every major operation failed miserably) until they ran out of places to hide and said "What the hell. Let's go into Havana".

TJ English - who seems to specialize in mafia and underworld books.

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Hi, I'm looking for non-fiction recs of a specific type [View all] happybird Apr 2019 OP

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