Caribbean Crisis
the invasion of grenada, 1983
$66.97
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2025
Summary
Grenada 1983: When a Nut Cracked the World
In 1983, Grenada, a small Commonwealth Island in the Caribbean, fostered strong ties with Communist Cuba. Bernard Coard and a group of hard-line Marxist-Leninists overthrew the unelected Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, executing him and his entourage. President Ronald Reagan, gripped by paranoia, believed Cuba was constructing a formidable military base in Grenada. Determined to eliminate this perceived threat, he resolved to initiate regime…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781036104085 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1036104087 |
| Author: | N.S. Nash |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 504g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
N.S. Nash
Brigadier NS ‘Tank’ Nash CBE was educated at Latymer Upper School and served in the Honourable Artillery Company (1957-1960) and thereafter in the Army Catering Corps (1960-1991). He was the Bursar of Loretto School (1991-1996). He has an MA in Military History from Birmingham. For 30 years he wrote humour under the pen name ‘Sustainer’ and his work was published internationally. Three anthologies of his column were published. His books include K Boat Catastrophe, ‘Strafer’ Gott – Desert General, Chitral Charlie – The Rise and Fall of Major General Charles Townshend, Valour in the Trenches, Betrayal of an Army - Mesopotamia 1914 -1916, Logistics in the Vietnam Wars and The Siege that Changed the World. He lectures on military history and lives in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
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