In london, protesters stage a sitin against war over the cuban missile crisis oct. The objectivity of sergo mikoyan is highly questionable, for the obvious reason that he is writing about his own father and is hardly going to present his father in an. New books on the cuban missile crisis the fourteenth day. The cuban missile crisis and the threat of nuclear war. The united states refused to allow this and, after thirteen tense days and many secret negotiations, the soviet union agreed to remove the missiles. The cuban missile crisis occurred in 1962 when the soviet union began to install nuclear missiles in cuba. Read this american history case study and over 89,000 other research documents. The scholarly and journalistic literature on the cuban missile crisis of october 1962 is immense and continues to grow. It is anastas mikoyans cuban missile crisis, and it is a translation of a book written by mikoyans son, sergo mikoyan. In response to the bay of pigs invasion and other american actions against cuba as well as to president kennedys buildup in italy and turkey of u.
But this was the rendition of events that the kennedy administration fed to a credulous press. Michael dobbs has pored over previously untapped american, soviet and cuban sources to provide the most authoritative book yet on the cuban missile crisis. Leave it to the canadians to write the best short volume on the cuban missile crisis that probably exists. The cuban missile crisis is the defining moment of john kennedys presidency. The book does provide some useful additional detail on. The cuban missile crisis hardcover jonathan colman. Stone, oliver and peter kuznick, the untold history of the united states gallery books, 2012, page 3. Kennedys memoir of the cuban missile crisis that occurs from october 16 to october 28,1962.
Aerial reconnaissance during the cuban missile crisis by capt. Stressing the importance of context in relation to. In this spirit, professor scott has written a book of compelling interest. Jfk tapes jfk and dwight eisenhower during the cuban missile crisis. T he m ost anxious w eek of the c old w ar the crisis began on 22 o ctober 1962 w hen america announced that spy flights over c u b a h a d revea led th e co n stru ctio n o f b a ses for soviet m edium range m issiles, and that a m erica w ould im pose a naval blockade on cuba to prevent the delivery of further missiles. See also whats at your library, or elsewhere broader terms. The cuban missile crisis origins, course and aftermath. The cuban missile war was the most devastating war in world history. The book was released in 1969, a year after his assassination. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the cuban missile crisis into a brief and accessible narrative history. Cuban missile crisis a edutainment by gumpert and poopface123. The cuban missile crisis is the term used in the west to describe the events of october 1962, described by robert kennedy as the world brought to the abyss of nuclear destruction and the end of mankind.
Jul, 2006 leave it to the canadians to write the best short volume on the cuban missile crisis that probably exists. Seven lessons of the cuban missile crisis for the karabakh. You are the president of the united states, the most powerful person in the world. This book provides an in depth look at the cuban missile crisis. Cuban missile crisis, 1962 sources cia documents on the cuban missile crisis, 1962 declassified version, 1992, by united states central intelligence agency, ed. Most of what you know about the cuban missile crisis is wrong. The estimated number of north american deaths was upwards of 200 million. The cuban missile crisis was a time of heightened confrontation between the soviet union, the united states, and cuba during the cold war. The backbone of allisons book is a series of chapters in which he first introduces the logical or theoretical machinery of his three models along with a precis of their academic antecedents, and then methodically applies them to the history of the cuban missile crisis to see what they explain about the behavior of the soviet and american. Oct 21, 20 this book provides an in depth look at the cuban missile crisis.
How do the two leaders compare understanding the problem khruschev realised that there was a missile gap to restore parity. The new book is titled the cuban missile crisis in american memory. Seven lessons of the cuban missile crisis for the karabakh conflict. Your story matters citation saradzhyan, simon and artur saradzhyan. The cuban missile crisis ipcs nias workshop april 5 th, 6 2015. Stern, worked as a historian at the kennedy library in boston from 1977 to. Reading lists cuban missile crisiscuban missile crisis. Kennedys account of the cuban missile crisis of 1962. Cia documents on the cuban missile crisis, 1962 declassified version, 1992, by united states central intelligence agency, ed. Lets begin with rfk, who has been lionized as a clever statesmen, partly due to his own posthumous 1969 book on the crisis. Cuban missile crisis for thirteen days in october 1962 the world waitedseemingly on the brink of nuclear warand hoped for a peaceful resolution to the cuban missile crisis. This book tells the story of the cuban missile crisis in 1962, the struggle that president kennedy and his advisers including the author, who was head of intelligence at the state department went through to try to understand why the soviet union had put nuclear missiles in cuba, the alternative policies they debated to deal with the presence of the missiles, the aftermath of the crisis, and. The most useful part of the book is the account of anastas mikoyans discussions with castro in october and november 1962. The cuban missile crisis the cold war by peter chrisp hodder wayland, 2001 an unfinished life.
Every sentence in the above paragraph describing the cuban missile crisis is misleading or erroneous. List of books and articles about cuban missile crisis. Kennedy, 19171963 by robert dallek little, brown, to be published in 2003. Jan 23, 2008 in this spirit, professor scott has written a book of compelling interest. By focusing on the roles of a number of key individuals, such as jfk, robert kennedy and. This even tis precipitated when soviet offensive weapons are found in cuba, contrary to public and private promises by premier nikita s. If you want a more tacticallevel perspective on the cuban missile crisis, check out blue moon over cuba. Seven lessons of the cuban missile crisis for the karabakh conflict the harvard community has made this article openly available.
How cuba won the missile crisis the world from prx. In russia, it is known as the caribbean crisis russian. As we come up towards the 50th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis in october 2012, there are new books coming out. This book explains the critical events, along with the experiences of those who execute presidential commands in. Cuban missile crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the united states and the soviet union. The book incorporates all the latest historiography on the topic. David coleman is the first to use the kennedy tapes to show that the challenges posed by the crisis did not end on the fabled thirteenth day. Kennedy said to john kenneth galbraith just after the cuban missile crisis.
This is perhaps the closest that the united states and the soviet union came to nuclear. Cuban missile crisis simple english wikipedia, the free. The fate of the earth rests in your hands, as humanity is on the brink of total nuclear war. Thirtysix years after the cuban missile crisis, these declassified documents stand as testament to just how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962, and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management.
Most of what you know about the cuban missile crisis is. The fourteenth day is a brilliant reconstruction of a time of superb presidential leadership. In six concise chapters, alice george introduces the history of cold war america and contextualizes its political, social, and cultural legacy. Using government memoranda, personal letters, and newspaper articles the cuban missile crisis, details the actual events of the political history, while explaining widespread public response. About the book on the thirteenth day, october 28, 1962, soviet premier nikita khrushchev agreed to remove nuclear missiles from cuba. Books about the cuban missile crisis history of cuba. Kennedy on the cuban missile crisis, later published as the book, thirteen days. A concise history, second edition, don munton and david a. Harvard kennedy schools belfer center has created this site as a resource for the cuban missile crisis.
What are some of the best nonfiction books on the cuban. Here you can also read castro secret speech to cubas communist party leadership in 1968. It explores other facts that were not publicly known at the time or until recently. Examines one of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes in world history. Mcnamara added that the major lesson of the cuban missile crisis was the indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will destroy nations. This book explains the critical events, along with the experiences of those who execute presidential commands in times of national crisis. In october 1962, an american u2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the soviet union on the island of cuba. Most books on the cuban missile crisis tell the story through the perspective of memoirs of those who advised president kennedy, as he struggled to avoid world war iii. Based on the secret white house tapes coleman, david on. A half century later there are still important things about the cuban missile crisis left to explore. Mar 26, 2010 the story of dramatic faceoff between the u.
As the revolutionary icon who left an indelible mark on history is mourned, we look at what lessons the cuban missile crisis offers todays political leaders on how to. This collection of formerly secret records includes correspondence between john f. Conventional wisdom has marked that day as the end of the cuban missile crisis, one of the most highly charged, and in the end most highly regarded, moments of american history. It was a proxy conflict around cuba it began when the soviet union ussr began building missile sites in cuba in 1962. Castro, the missile crisis, and the soviet collapse pantheon books. It is essential reading for those who love presidential history or just remain fascinated by jfk. Yet the late cuban leader fidel castro, us president john f. We show our respect, love and affection for the best president ever, jfk. Kennedy and soviet premier nikita khrushchev, were able to prevent the worstcase scenario from taking place. When faced with the threat of impending cuban nuclear capabilities you must choose the us course of action to maintain the global balance of power. However, if you are truly interested in the whole story of the cuban missile crisis. This file contains a draft of an article by robert f.
Double, perhaps even quadruple that number of soviet, eastern european, and chinese citizens perished, and no one had any reliable data on how many western europeans, africans, asians, australians, and others were killed by the radioactive fallout as it. How cultural misreadings almost led to global annihilation secretary general robert f. Cuban relations, without whose understanding it would be foolish to claim any pointed analysis on the subject. The cuban missile crisis as it came to be known is very well explained in this book by the charles river editors the briefings to the president and the flavour of the tense moments is well described. The cuban missile crisis by divine, r a and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Cuba and the missile crisis article pdf available in journal of latin american studies 2212. Designed to help policymakers, students, and interested citizens draw lessons from these critical events half a century ago, this site not only provides background on the crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster in october 1962 but also offers tools to understand how. The claim in the dust jacket that this book rewrites the conventional history of the 1962 missile crisis is simply false. The authors draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes, events, consequences, and significance.
For thirteen days, the united states held its breath, fearing the ultimate destruction of the nation by nuclear weapons. Written like a thriller, one minute to midnight is an exhaustively researched account of what arthur schlesinger, jr. The fate of the earth rests in your hands, as humanity is on the brink of total. Fidel castro centre for international governance innovation. The cuban missile crisis, also known as the october crisis of 1962 spanish. Sep 14, 2012 most books on the cuban missile crisis tell the story through the perspective of memoirs of those who advised president kennedy, as he struggled to avoid world war iii. In his hourbyhour chronicle of those nearfatal days, dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that show how close we came to armageddon. A memoir of the cuban missile crisis paperback november 17, 1999 by robert f.
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