Marianas in Combat: Tete Puebla : The Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon in Cuba's Revolutionary War : 1956-1958

Brigadier General Tete Puebla, the highest-ranking woman in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces, joined the struggle to overthrow the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1956, when she was fifteen years old. This is her story -- from clandestine action in the cities, to serving as an officer in the victorious Rebel Army's first all-women's unit -- the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon. For nearly fifty years, the fight to transform the social and economic status of women in Cuba has been inseparable from Cuba's socialist revolution. Publisher: Golazin