Thirteen Days A Memoir Of The Cuban Missile Crisis

Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0393341534

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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy Pdf

"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 : Robert F. Kennedy,Richard E. Neustadt,Graham T. Allison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1245188042

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Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy,Richard E. Neustadt,Graham T. Allison Pdf

Author : Howard Brinkley
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621074533

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13 Days in October by Howard Brinkley Pdf

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 : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : Signet
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1969-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0451120337

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Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy Pdf

A resissue of the gripping and bestselling account of the perilous showdown between the United States and Soviet Union in 1962. Includes a new Foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Author : Sheldon M Stern
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804784320

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The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory by Sheldon M Stern Pdf

“Marshals irrefutable evidence to succinctly demolish the mythic version of the crisis . . . sober analysis.” —The Atlantic This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. More than a half-century after the event, it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that Robert F. Kennedy’s Thirteen Days and the personal memoirs of other ExComm members cannot be taken seriously as historically accurate accounts of the ExComm meetings. This book, from the first historian to listen to and evaluate the White House tapes made during the crisis, does exactly that. “Stern is not alone in questioning the precision of the transcripts offered, but he has made the most painstaking attempt to clarify what was really said and done.” —Journal of American History

Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393540826

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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy Pdf

"The definitive history.…With his masterly book, Mr. Plokhy has sounded a warning bell." — The Economist A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy’s Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground. In breathtaking detail, Plokhy vividly recounts the young JFK being played by the canny Khrushchev; the hotheaded Castro willing to defy the USSR and threatening to align himself with China; the Soviet troops on the ground clearing jungle foliage in the tropical heat, and desperately trying to conceal nuclear installations on Cuba, which were nonetheless easily spotted by U-2 spy planes; and the hair-raising near misses at sea that nearly caused a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine to fire its weapons. More often than not, the Americans and Soviets misread each other, operated under false information, and came perilously close to nuclear catastrophe. Despite these errors, nuclear war was ultimately avoided for one central reason: fear, and the realization that any escalation on either the Soviets’ or the Americans’ part would lead to mutual destruction. Drawing on a range of Soviet archival sources, including previously classified KGB documents, as well as White House tapes, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama and anxiety of those tense days, and provides a way for us to grapple with the problems posed in our present day.

Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : Signet
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1969-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0451091507

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Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy Pdf

A resissue of the gripping and bestselling account of the perilous showdown between the United States and Soviet Union in 1962. Includes a new Foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Author : Michael Dobbs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307269362

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One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs Pdf

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo; the handling of Soviet nuclear warheads on Cuba; and the extraordinary story of a U-2 spy plane that got lost over Russia at the peak of the crisis. Written like a thriller, One Minute to Midnight is an exhaustively researched account of what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called “the most dangerous moment in human history,” and the definitive book on the Cuban missile crisis.

Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349007523

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13 Days by Robert F. Kennedy Pdf

Author : Aleksandr Fursenko,Timothy Naftali
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393245516

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"One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 by Aleksandr Fursenko,Timothy Naftali Pdf

Based on classified Soviet archives, including the files of Nikita Khrushchev and the KGB, "One Hell of a Gamble" offers a riveting play-by-play history of the Cuban missile crisis from American and Soviet perspectives simultaneously. No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the Soviet Union have long been sealed from public view: Of the most frightening episode of the Cold War--the Cuban Missile Crisis--we have had an incomplete picture. When did Castro embrace the Soviet Union? What proposals were put before the Kremlin through Kennedy's back-channel diplomacy? How close did we come to nuclear war? These questions have now been answered for the first time. This important and controversial book draws the missing half of the story from secret Soviet archives revealed exclusively by the authors, including the files of Nikita Khrushchev and his leadership circle. Contained in these remarkable documents are the details of over forty secret meetings between Robert Kennedy and his Soviet contact, records of Castro's first solicitation of Soviet favor, and the plans, suspicions, and strategies of Khrushchev. This unique research opportunity has allowed the authors to tell the complete, fascinating, and terrifying story of the most dangerous days of the last half-century.

Author : Norman Polmar
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620459614

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DEFCON-2 by Norman Polmar Pdf

The closest we've ever come to the end of the world "DEFCON-2 is the best single volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis published and is an important contribution to the history of the Cold War. Beyond the military and political facts of the crisis, Polmar and Gresham sketch the personalities that created and coped with the crisis. They also show us how close we came to the edge without becoming sensationalistic."—Larry Bond, bestselling author of Dangerous Ground Spy-satellite and aerial-reconnaissance photos reveal that one of the United States's bitterest enemies may be acquiring weapons of mass destruction and the means to use them against the American homeland. Administration officials refuse to accept intelligence professionals' interpretation of these images and order an end to spy missions over the offending nation. More than a month later, after vicious infighting, the president orders the spy missions to resume. The new photos reveal an array of ballistic missiles, capable of carrying nuclear warheads and striking deep within U.S. territory. It appears that the missiles will be fully operational within one week. This is not a plot setup for a suspense novel; it is the true story of the most terrifying moment in the 45-year Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union: the Cuban Missile Crisis. DEFCON-2 tells this tale as it has never been told before—from both sides, with the help of hundreds of recently declassified U.S. and Soviet documents, as well as interviews with numerous former spies, military figures, and government officials who speak out here for the first time.

Author : Max Frankel
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345466716

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High Noon in the Cold War by Max Frankel Pdf

An examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis analyzes the roles, objectives, and actions of John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the October 1962 showdown between the U.S. and Soviet Union.

Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Military bases, Soviet
ISBN : OCLC:1019388248

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Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy Pdf

Author : Don Munton,David A. Welch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Crise de Cuba, oct. 1962
ISBN : 0199795703

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The Cuban Missile Crisis by Don Munton,David A. Welch Pdf

In The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History, Second Edition, Don Munton and David A. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the Cuban missile crisis into a brief and accessible narrative history. The authors draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes, events, consequences, and significance. Stressing the importance of context in relation to the genesis, conduct, and resolution of the crisis, Munton and Welch examine events from the U.S., Soviet, and Cuban angles, revealing the vital role that differences in national perspectives played at every stage. While the book provides a concise, up-to-date look at this pivotal event, it also notes gaps and mysteries in the historical record and highlights important persistent interpretive disputes. The authors provide a detailed guide to relevant literature and film for those who wish to explore further. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the crisis, this revised and updated edition of The Cuban Missile Crisis is ideal for undergraduate courses on the 1960s, U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, twentieth-century world history, and comparative foreign policy.

Author : Norman H. Finkelstein
Publisher : Dissertation.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
ISBN : 0595156541

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Thirteen Days/Ninety Miles by Norman H. Finkelstein Pdf

From October 15-28, 1962, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. This book recreated the events of that time and examines the personalities of the major characters especially John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. Using recently declassified information, Norman H. Finkelstein traces the missile crisis from its origins down to a breathtaking finale. In a starred review, Booklist said, “Young adult readers who enjoy suspense stories will be hard-pressed to find a more dramatic, well-written account of a historical event.”