The Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962

Author : Tomás Diez Acosta
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book October 1962 written by Tomás Diez Acosta and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Samuel Dinerstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Missile Crisis, October 1962 written by Herbert Samuel Dinerstein and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349007528
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 13 Days written by Robert F. Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111578127
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book President Kennedy speaks written by John Fitzgerald Kennedy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phil Carradice
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526708086
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cuban Missile Crisis written by Phil Carradice and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping Cold War history chronicles the events that brough the world to the edge of nuclear war—and the political drama that averted disaster. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the closest the world has yet come to nuclear war, a time when the hands of the Doomsday Clock really did inch towards the witching hour of midnight. By placing nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island of Cuba where, potentially, they were able to threaten the eastern seaboard of the USA, Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Union escalated the Cold War to a level that everyone feared but had never previously thought possible. In a desperate and dangerous game of brinkmanship, for thirteen nerve-wracking days Premier Khrushchev and President Kennedy held the fate of the world in their hands. Kennedy, in particular, wrestled with a range of options – allow the missiles to stay, launch an air strike on the sites, or invade Cuba. In the end, he did none of these. But the solution to one of the deadliest dilemmas of the twentieth century proved to be a brave and dramatic moment in human history.

Author : Lester H. Brune
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missile Crisis of October 1962 written by Lester H. Brune and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Nash
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863564
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Missiles of October written by Philip Nash and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding important new light on the history of the Cold War, Philip Nash tells the story of what the United States gave up to help end the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. By drawing on documents only recently declassified, he shows that one of President Kennedy's compromises with the Soviets involved the removal of Jupiter missiles from Italy and Turkey, an arrangement concealed from both the American public and the rest of the NATO allies. Nash traces the entire history of the Jupiters and explores why the United States offered these nuclear missiles, which were capable of reaching targets in the Soviet Union, to its European allies after the launch of Sputnik. He argues that, despite their growing doubts, both Eisenhower and Kennedy proceeded with the deployment of the missiles because they felt that cancellation would seriously damage America's credibility with its allies and the Soviet Union. The Jupiters subsequently played a far more significant role in Khrushchev's 1962 decision to deploy his missiles in Cuba, in U.S. deliberations during the ensuing missile crisis, and in the resolution of events in Cuba than most existing histories have supposed.

Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prelude to Leadership written by John Fitzgerald Kennedy and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly discovered diary of a young JFK.

Author : Howard Brinkley
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1621074536
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 13 Days in October written by Howard Brinkley and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.