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  • Bon Papa
    Bernard Diederich
    This is Haiti, pearl of the Antilles, during the presidency of General Paul E. (Bon Papa) Magloire (1950-56). It was an exciting time, when Haitians stood tall, and their country flourished, as reported in the pages of the Haiti Sun newspaper. It was a time when the arts blossomed and tourists discovered a wonderful, bewitching land with the most friendly people in our hemisphe...
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    25,68 €

  • The Price of Blood
    Bernard Diederich
    This is the terrifying history of how Dr. François “Papa Doc” Duvalier used terrorism to reach power, and how he institutionalized terrorism as a weapon of the State. The book reports in detail the stories of the many unsuccessful attempts to end Papa Doc’s inhuman tyranny and why they failed. The result of years of investigation and exclusive interviews by the author, The Pric...
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    29,84 €

  • Murderers Among Us
    Bernard Diederich
    François “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s hold on power in Haiti, initially tenuous, grew stronger as American confrontations with Cuba under President Kennedy fostered a fear that Communism could sweep Haiti if “Papa Doc” were ousted. Nonetheless, several groups of daring rebels took on the formidable task of overthrowing the dictator. The mini-revolutions had little chance of success, b...
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    29,60 €

  • Somoza and the Legacy of U.S. Involvement in Central America
    Bernard Diederich
    This engaging story of Nicaragua’s notorious tyrant is more than a biography. Solidly written for a general as well as scholarly audience, it paints a portrait of the man against a backdrop of Nicaragua’s political structure, social circumstance, and economic background, encompassing its relations with other Central American countries and the ramifications of the civil war of 1...
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    29,23 €

  • Papa Doc & the Tontons Macoutes
    Bernard Diederich
    Originally published in 1970, this is the story of Haiti under the rule of Dr. François Duvalier. Bernard Diederich lived in Haiti for 14 years and had personal experience of the early Duvalier days and the period of Maloire’s rule. His work exposes the evil of Duvalier’s rule and the tale of how Duvalier undid U.S. policy. “No one alive … is better qualified than Bernard Diede...
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    28,96 €

  • 1959
    Bernard Diederich
    Certain years are pivotal in global history, and one such year was 1959, from which this book takes its title. 1959 was indeed a historic year during which, among other historic events, Fidel Castro’s guerrilla war in Cuba toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista. This intriguing book, drawn from the pages of the author’s English-language weekly newspaper, the Haiti Sun, and from his...
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    23,37 €

  • The Prize
    Bernard Diederich
    In this second book in his Haiti Sun series, publisher Bernard Diederich examines Haiti’s disastrous year of 1957 during which politicians, in their battle for the National Palace, brought their Caribbean country to the brink of collapse.The struggle tore families and friends asunder, reared the ugly head of black-versus-mulatto racism-and opened the way for the Machiavellian t...
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    13,57 €