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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393341534
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis written by Robert F. Kennedy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Thirteen Days/ninety Miles

Author : Norman H. Finkelstein
Publisher : Julian Messner
ISBN 13 : 9780671866228
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Days/ninety Miles written by Norman H. Finkelstein and published by Julian Messner. This book was released on 1994 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Remember Not to Forget: A Memory of the Holocaust delivers a concise, clear account of the major Cold War crisis of 1962 and shows how misjudgments nearly led to nuclear war.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 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:

The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory

Author : Sheldon M Stern
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804784329
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory written by Sheldon M Stern and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

DEFCON-2

Author : Norman Polmar
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620459612
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book DEFCON-2 written by Norman Polmar and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Living Through the Cuban Missile Crisis

Author : William S. McConnell
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780737721287
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Living Through the Cuban Missile Crisis written by William S. McConnell and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During thirteen tense days in October 1962, and only ninety miles from the coast of Florida, the Soviet Union constructed nuclear missile silos and shipped nuclear warheads to Communist Cuba bringing both superpowers to the brink of a nuclear war. This volume examines the missile crisis from the perspective of U.S. citizens, includes articles that highlight the public response, and provides primary documents such as speeches and communiquis to which the public had access through news media during the crisis period.

Monthly Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The North British review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The North British review written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

JFK and the Unspeakable

Author : James W. Douglass
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439193886
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book JFK and the Unspeakable written by James W. Douglass and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ACCLAIMED BOOK, NOW IN PAPERBACK, with a reading group guide and a new afterword by the author. At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy’s change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence. Once these dark "Unspeakable" forces recognized that Kennedy’s interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and orchestrated the subsequent cover-up. Douglass takes readers into the Oval Office during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, along on the strange journey of Lee Harvey Oswald and his shadowy handlers, and to the winding road in Dallas where an ambush awaited the President’s motorcade. As Douglass convincingly documents, at every step along the way these forces of the Unspeakable were present, moving people like pawns on a chessboard to promote a dangerous and deadly agenda.

The Abyss

Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062980181
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Abyss written by Max Hastings and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded. In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century—the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis—America President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors. Combining in-depth research with Hasting’s well-honed insights, The Abyss is a human history that unfolds on a wide, colorful canvas. As the action moves back and forth from Moscow to Washington, DC, to Havana, Hastings seeks to explain, as much as to describe, the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and to recreate the tension and heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance. Reflecting on the outcome of these events, he reveals how the aftermath of this momentous crisis continues to reverberate today. Powerful, and riveting, filled with compelling detail and told with narrative flair, The Abyss is history at its finest.

The Folly of War

Author : Donald E. Schmidt
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875863841
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Folly of War written by Donald E. Schmidt and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Folly of War is a hard-hitting, critical analysis of American wars in the 20th century that set a pattern for the early 21st century. Drawing on a wide rage of sources and rigorously marshaling the facts, the book concludes that these wars have been futile, unnecessary and foolish. Rejecting the Left's contention that American foreign policy has been driven by greedy corporate interests, the author starts from the premise that average Americans have supported these wars out of a will to do good" but have failed in that aim, and in the process done much harm. This is a disturbing book that raises questions about how we go to war, how we fight wars, and how we eventually lose wars. Many Americans viewed the military defeat in Vietnam as an aberration, interrupting a string of foreign military successes. This book sees that tragedy as part of a line of politically reckless engagements. Driven by a proud self assurance that is often termed American exceptionalism, the nation arms itself to the teeth and intrudes into every region, pacing on a treadmill of perpetual war to achieve perpetual peace. Writing Chapter 13, "The War on Terror - The Contrived War" in 2003, just as the Bush administration was making its fateful decision to invade Iraq, Schmidt concluded at that time that the discussion among the principals (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, etc.) was stacked with faulty information and the decision was made on an emotional level rather than a rational one. Further, he predicted that nothing good would come of the Iraq venture -- unfortunately that assessment was correct. One of the officials in the Bush White House who participated in the pre-war discussions, admitted the attack was irrational: "The only reason we went into Iraq is we were looking for somebody's ass to kick ... Afghanistan was too easy." (Days of Fire - Bush and Cheney in the White House, by Peter Baker, p 191, Doubleday, 2013). At the end of seven major wars and after one million American soldiers have been killed, we are no closer to the perfect security we seek.

A general plan for a mail communication by steam between Great Britain and the eastern and western parts of the world

Author : James M'Queen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World

Author : James MacQueen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World written by James MacQueen and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World. Also, to Canton and Sydney, Westward by the Pacific. To which are added, geographical notices of the Isthmus of Panama, Nicaragua, etc

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Author : James MACQUEEN (Geographer)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Plan for Mail Communication by Steam Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World

Author : James Macqueen (Historical Writer.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal

Author : Ralph Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (923 download)

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Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove

Author : Sean M. Maloney
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640123490
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove written by Sean M. Maloney and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generation saw it as a satire on nuclear issues and Cold War thinking. Subsequent generations, removed from the film's historical moment, came to view it as a quasi-documentary about an unfathomable secret world. Sean M. Maloney uses Dr. Strangelove and other genre classics like Fail Safe and The Bedford Incident to investigate a curious pop cultural contradiction. Nuclear crisis films repeatedly portrayed the failures of the Cold War's deterrent system. Yet the system worked. What does this inconsistency tell us about the genre? What does it tell us about the deterrent system, for that matter? Blending film analysis with Cold War history, Maloney looks at how the celluloid crises stack up against reality--or at least as much of reality as we can reconstruct from these films with confidence. The result is a daring intellectual foray that casts new light on Dr. Strangelove, one of the Cold War era's defining films.