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"Learn how Reagan's
principles restored America's moral & military might and brought the
Soviets to their knees."
--MICHAEL REAGAN, President Reagan's Son
"Four days of intense fighting in a remote corner of the planet turned the tide in a global struggle; brilliantly explains how this happened."
--GORDON CHANG, Conservative Columnist
TURNING POINT
HOW REAGAN LIBERATED GRENADA
AND WON THE COLD WAR
By John Bachman
THE UNTOLD STORY OF REAGAN,
THATCHER, THE INVASION OF GRENADA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR
How Reagan reignited the foreign policy principles that made America a Shining City Upon a Hill."
"Grenada, we were told,
was a friendly island paradise for tourism. Well, it wasn't. It was a
Soviet-Cuban colony being readied as a major military bastion to export terror
and undermine democracy. We got there just in time.''
--President Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1983
The biggest story of the 20th century - the fall of the Soviet Union - starts with the battle for Grenada. It is the first time the West and the United States successfully pushed back against the Soviets and communism. In his timely new book TURNING POINT: How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold War award-winning journalist and Newsmax TV host, John Bachman tells the story of the liberation of Grenada, a critical time in the Cold War - a turning point from Soviet advances towards the United States to victories over the Soviet state. These U.S. triumphs include the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Warsaw Pact countries, and eventually, the Soviet republics and Russia itself.
On October 25th, 1983, President Ronald Reagan launched one of the most successful invasions in modern American history. In four days, Operation Urgent Fury successfully liberated the Island of Grenada from communist forces and reinstated the democratically elected government. It was the first major American operation since Vietnam and the first victorious major military operation since World War II. And this monumental task almost came at the cost of the most important Cold War alliance: that between President Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The urgency of action meant that the Prime Minister and close American ally was left out of the loop, publicly embarrassing for her and straining their relationship.
TURNING POINT reveals how America was able to invade a country, liberate it from a corrupt government that threatened stability in the Western hemisphere, and leave the potential for a prosperous future in the hands of its own people; it explores the greater picture of how Reagan avoided succumbing to interventionist nation-building and becoming an occupying force. President Reagan's strategic success helped bring an end to the Cold War and is a much needed lesson for current American foreign policy.
Grenada was more than just a story about a small battle in a Caribbean nation; it was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. A new president was in town, and he rejected the coexistence and détente policies of previous presidents. No, this president, Ronald Reagan, was going to hit this "Evil Empire" with everything.
Reagan spoke out often against the Soviets, saying America would transcend the Soviet state and consign it to "the ash heap of history." Ronald Reagan won the Cold War by standing firm against Soviet hegemony. It's a story that needs to be told, and now, in TURNING POINT, John Bachman has told it brilliantly and thoroughly.
"Bachman brilliantly
shows how Reagan brought his deep and intuitive understanding of the American
people and domestic politics to bear on foreign policy and provided the
homegrown support any president needs to win overseas."
--AMBASSADOR RICHARD GRENELL, Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions of United States
"A fresh and needed
perspective on how a small island's liberation may have temporarily strained a
historic alliance but ultimately handed Reagan and the U.S. a key victory on
the way to winning the Cold War."
--KT McFARLAND, Former Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Bachman is an award-winning journalist and the host of John Bachman Now on NEWSMAX. He started in broadcast news at WAGA Fox 5 in Atlanta before taking on roles at WRDW in Augusta, Georgia, and WPEC CBS 12 News in West Palm Beach, Florida. Known for his sharp interviews and clear-eyed reporting, Bachman has covered major national and international stories while never losing touch with the values of local journalism. He joined NEWSMAX in its early years and quickly became one of the network's most trusted voices, anchoring breaking news and delivering thoughtful commentary on the day's most pressing issues, and winning an award for the NEWSMAX Heroes documentary he wrote and produced to commemorate the heroic acts of twenty-five ordinary Americans.
