FIDEL CASTRO TO RELEASE FIRST VOLUME OF MEMOIRS
Baku, July 28 (AZERTAC). Cuba`s ageing former president describes how he became a guerrilla fighter Cuba`s former President Fidel Castro has unveiled plans to release the first volume of his memoirs.
The book, to be called The Strategic Victory, will be published in August.
It will focus on the story of how just a few hundred revolutionaries under Mr Castro`s command defeated the Cuban army in 1958.
Mr Castro, 83, said he had spent months working on the book since falling ill in 2006 and handing power to his brother Raul.
Among the many titles the former revolutionary said he considered for the 25-chapter book was: How 300 defeated 10,000.
The volume includes photographs, maps and plans of the guerrilla war against the dictator Fulgencio Batista, he told Cuban website cubadebate.cu.
There will also be a detailed account of the final offensive, which Mr Castro said lasted 74 days.
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