The journalist Herbert Matthews' decision to find and interview the rebel guerilla leader Fidel Castro in his mountain hideout, at a time when the US-backed military dictator Fulgencio Batista was denying there was serious unrest in Cuba, was courageous and far-sighted.
Foreword

Fidel Castro, the rebel leader of Cuba's youth, is alive and fighting hard and successfully in the rugged, almost impenetrable vastnesses of the Sierra Mastra at the southern tip of the island.