Cuban Missile Crisis - Colman Jonathan
Cuban Missile Crisis - Colman Jonathan Draws on new sources to examine one of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes in world histor from a global perspectiveThe Cuban Missile Crisis was a six-day…
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Cuban Missile Crisis - Colman Jonathan
Draws on new sources to examine one of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes in world histor from a global perspectiveThe Cuban Missile Crisis was a six-day clash in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were determined to avoid nuclear war, but events could easily have spiralled out of control with cataclysmic results. Both John F.
Drawing on an extensive body of research, including material released only on the 50th anniversary of the crisis, this book places the event in a broader international and chronological context than ever before. This book provides a lucid and up-to-date introduction to the Crisis, including American responsibility for causing it, and Cuba's role as an important actor rather than a superpower pawn. It features a number of primary source documents,