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Havana nocturne how the mob owned Cuba--and then lost it to the revolution

An award-winning journalist and historian offers the complete story of how the Mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s, made a fortune--and lost it all to Fidel Castro.

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  • "Ka si chu de ge ming qian xi"
  • "Kasichu de ge ming qian xi"
  • "卡斯楚的革命前夕"
  • "Havana nocturne:how the mob owned Cuba ... and lost It to the revolution"

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  • "An award-winning journalist and historian offers the complete story of how the Mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s, made a fortune--and lost it all to Fidel Castro.--Résumé de l'éditeur."
  • "An award-winning journalist and historian offers the complete story of how the Mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s, made a fortune--and lost it all to Fidel Castro."@en
  • "To underworld kingpins Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Cuba was the greatest hope for the future of American organized crime in the post-Prohibition years. In the 1950s, the Mob'with the corrupt, repressive government of brutal Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in its pocket'owned Havana's biggest luxury hotels and casinos, launching an unprecedented tourism boom complete with the most lavish entertainment, top-drawer celebrities, gorgeous women, and gambling galore. But Mob dreams collided with those of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and others who would lead an uprising of the country's disenfranchised against Batista's hated government and its foreign partners'an epic cultural battle that bestselling author T. J. English captures here in all its sexy, decadent, ugly glory."@en
  • "Mafia contre révolution dans le Cuba de l'après-guerre en 1946. Les principaux caïds de la mafia américaine se réunissent à l'hôtel Nacional de La Havane. Leur but, faire de Cuba une base avancée du crime en y créant l'un des empires du jeu le plus extravagant au monde. Juin 1948. Un jeune étudiant en droit versant dans le gangstérisme est accusé du meurtre d'un policier. Son nom est Fidel Castro."
  • "Discusses how the crime syndicate in America moved to Havana to escape government crackdowns, and details how the Jewish American mobster, Meyer Lansky, helped to transport American mob leaders to Cuba, with aid from Cuba's dictator Fulgencio Batista, but was forced to battle with the leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara, and others."
  • "An award-winning journalist and historian offers the story of how the Mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s, made a fortune--and lost it all to Fidel Castro."

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  • "True crime stories"
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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "History"@en
  • "History"

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  • "Havana nocturne : how the mob owned Cuba - and then lost it to the revolution"
  • "紙醉金迷哈瓦那 : 卡斯楚的革命前夕"
  • "Havana nocturne how the mob owned Cuba--and then lost it to the revolution"@en
  • "Nocturne à La Havane"
  • "Havana nocturne"@en
  • "Havana nocturne how the mob owned Cuba-- and then lost it to the revolution"@en
  • "Nocturno de La Habana : cómo la mafia se hizo con Cuba y la acabó perdiendo"
  • "Havana nocturne : how the mob owned Cuba-- and then lost It to the revolution / T.J. English"
  • "Havana nocturne : how the mob owned Cuba-- and then lost it to the revolution"@en
  • "Havana nocturne : how the mob owned Cuba-- and then lost it to the revolution"
  • "Nocturno de La Habana cómo la Mafia se hizo con Cuba y la acabó perdiendo"@es
  • "Zhi zui jin mi ha wa na : ka si chu de ge ming qian xi"
  • "Havana nocturne : how the mob owned Cuba-- and then lost It to the revolution"
  • "Nocturno de la Habana : cómo la Mafia se hizo con Cuba y acabó perdiendo"
  • "Zhi zui jin mi Hawana : Kasichu de ge ming qian xi"
  • "Nocturno de la Habana cómo la mafia se hizo con Cuba y la acabó perdiendo en la revolución"
  • "Nocturne à la Havane"
  • "Nocturno de la Habana : cómo la mafia se hizo con Cuba y la acabó perdiendo en la revolución"
  • "Havana nocturne how the Mob owned Cuba, and then lost it to the revolution"

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