The Cuban Missile Crisis /
"Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of events surrounding the harrowing 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, telling the story of the tense thirteen-day standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Includes biographies, primar...
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Omnigraphics,
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Publisher Address: | Detroit, MI : |
Publication Dates: | [2015] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Defining moments
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Summary: |
"Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of events surrounding the harrowing 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, telling the story of the tense thirteen-day standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more"-- |
Carrier Form: | xvi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780780813489 (hardback) : 0780813480 (hardback) |
Index Number: | E841 |
CLC: |
D871.29 K751.5 |
Call Number: | K751.5/H655 |
Contents: | The Cold War -- The United States and Cuba -- The discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba -- The world reaches the brink of nuclear war -- The Cold War comes to an end -- Legacy of the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Biographies. Rudolf Anderson Jr. (1927-1962) ; Fidel Castro (1926- ) ; Anatoly Dobrynin (1919-2010) ; Alexander Feklisov (1914-2007) ; John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) ; Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) ; Nikita Khrushchev (1891-1971) ; John McCone (1902-1991) ; Robert S. McNamara (1916-2009) ; Ted Sorensen (1928-2010) -- Primary sources. The Soviet Union vows to defend Cuba ; Robert F. Kennedy de |