The Missile Crisis of October 1962
Author : Lester H. Brune
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Lester H. Brune
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Tomás Diez Acosta
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
In October 1962, Washington pushed the world to the edge of nuclear war. Here, for the first time, the full story of that historic moment is told from the perspective of the Cuban people, whose determination to defend their sovereignty and their socialist revolution blocked U.S. plans for a military assault and saved humanity from the consequences of a nuclear holocaust.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
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Author : John F. Kennedy
Publisher : Regnery
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780895264312
Prelude to Leadership is the private diary of John F. Kennedy when he was a 28-year-old reporter in Europe. It offers a short yet intimate look into the mind of the man who was to become the 35th President of the United States. As World War II was ending and the Cold War was just beginning, a young naval hero decommissioned before war's end because of his crippling injuries, traveled through a devastated Europe. During the trip, John F. Kennedy kept a diary, never before published. As the diary makes clear, that European trip was a turning point in the future President's life. It was on this trip that Kennedy first confronted the "long twilight struggle" for the preservation of Western freedom that would define his Presidency. In these few months an agenda for a Presidency began to be forged, and the closing pages of the diary make clear that it was at this moment in time that Kennedy began laying plans for his first run for Congress , the first step in his journey to the White House.
Author : Herbert Samuel Dinerstein
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN :
Contains primary source material.
Author : Lester H. Brune
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0393341534
"A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history." —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a new foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light, especially from the Soviet Union.
Author : Howard Brinkley
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2012-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1621074536
Never has the world come as close to the catastrophic destruction that nearly came to pass in October 1962. The United States and the Soviet Union, uneasy allies in World War II but Cold War rivals after the defeat of Germany, squared off over the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. This launched 13 days of tense negotiations between the two nations, as both President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev prepared for the possibility of nuclear war. While neither man wanted a war and understood the potential consequences, the situation was not merely in their hands. Khrushchev faced pressure from Soviets to take a hardline stance against the U.S., while Kennedy faced the real possibility of a military coup if he did not follow the strong recommendations of his military advisors to destroy the missiles. As Attorney General Robert Kennedy said, "The 10 or 12 people who participated in all these discussions were bright and energetic people. We had perhaps amongst the most able in the country and if any one of a half a dozen of them were president, the world would have been very likely plunged into catastrophic war." Read more about the history of this short crisis in this book. HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides. With each book, a brief period of history is recapped. We publish a wide array of topics (from baseball and music to science and philosophy), so check our growing catalogue regularly to see our newest books.
Author : Sergo Anastasovich Mikoi︠a︡n
Publisher : Cold War International History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804762014
300 pages of documents include: telegrams, memoranda of conversations, instructions to diplomats, etc.
Author : Jonathan Colman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0748696296
October 1962, The Cuban Missile Crisis: the confrontation that brought the world closer to nuclear catastrophe than ever before or since. Both John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were determined to avoid nuclear war, but events could easily have spiraled out of control with cataclysmic results. Drawing on an extensive body of research, including primary sources released only in the last few years, this work places the crisis in a broader international and chronological context than previously possible. Discover how America was responsible for causing the conflict and Cuba's role as an important actor rather than a superpower pawn.