The crisis was a defining moment in the presidency of john f. Jul 20, 2018 the cuban missile crisis was a confrontation between the us and ussr concerning the latters deployment of ballistic missiles in cuba and the formers deployment of ballistic missiles in turkey and italy. List of books and articles about cuban missile crisis. The authors draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes, events, consequences, and significance. The cuban missile crisis involved a single discrete set of circumstances. Ripe for jeff shaaras vivid alchemy of factbased fiction, here is the cuban missile crisis as readers have never seen it. A concise history, second edition, don munton and david a. It is often considered as the cold war of cuba which was extended to a great level that there was a major possibility of the conversion of the cold war into a nuclear war between the. Welch and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
Thirteen days is a look from within about the cuban missile crisis. Click download or read online button to get the cuban missile crisis book now. For thirteen days in october of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the united states and ussr, as the superpowers argued over the installation of soviet nuclear weapons in cuba. I had read this book many years ago in a class in negotiations in graduate school. A summary of the cuban missile crisis would be that there was a day worrisome military and political standoff in october of 1962 due to the nucleararmed missiles in cuba, which ended when the united states allowed the soviet leader, nikita khrushchev, to remove the cuban missiles as long as the u.
Two newsworthy 1987 conferences on the cuban missile crisis are the focus of blight and welchs extraordinary piece of scholarship. The cuban missile crisis at 55 national security archive. Late the night before, the cia had produced detailed photo intelligence identifying soviet nuclear missile installations under construction on the island of cuba, some ninety miles off the florida coast. The following charts showing ship deployments and movements on each day of the cuban missile crisis were the work of flag plot and asw plot, special components of the office of the chief of naval operations. Reading lists cuban missile crisiscuban missile crisis.
Americans and soviets reexamine the cuban missile crisis by james g. The goldstandard of missile crisis books, however, is probably graham allisons essence of decision. This book explains the critical events, along with the experiences of those who execute presidential commands in times of national crisis. The secret history of the cuban missile crisis the kennedy tapes. Eyeball to eyeball an alternate cuban missile crisis series book 1 by douglas niles. This even tis precipitated when soviet offensive weapons are found in cuba, contrary to public and private promises by premier nikita s. Oct 28, 2019 on october 27, 1962, u2 pilot rudolf anderson jr. Most of what you know about the cuban missile crisis is.
What are some of the best nonfiction books on the cuban. Kennedy took a calculated risk and succeeded in negotiating the removal of those weapons after weeks of. This book is about the cuban missile crisis that began on october 16, 1962 when the soviet union began to send ballistic missiles to the cuban island. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. This book is the story of the 1962 cuban missile crisis, the closest the world has ever come to a full out, no holds barred, nuclear war. Svetlana savranskaya mikoyan archive reveals cuba a nearnuclear power new book shows crisis unresolved until november 22, 1962. Most of what you know about the cuban missile crisis is wrong. It was a proxy conflict around cuba it began when the soviet union ussr began building missile sites in cuba in 1962. Hilsmans book is one of only two accounts of the cuban missile crisis written by one of the principals, and has added significance in light of the turbid state and uncertain future of nuclear. Dobbs depicts the cuban missile crisis on a minute. Aerial reconnaissance during the cuban missile crisis by capt.
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. As a reporter for the washington post and a foreign correspondent having covered the collapse of communism, dobbss careful attention to detail and knowledge of this event is evident throughout the book. This book exposes the misconceptions, halftruths, 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. With these charts, formerly classified top secret, one can track the massive buildup of blockade and invasion forces during the days. The cuban missile crisis is the closest the united states came to nuclear war during the cold war era. Both the americans and soviets were sobered by the cuban missile crisis. Cuban missile crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the united states and the soviet union. The new book is titled the cuban missile crisis in american memory. The executive committee of the national security council excomm, meeting in the white house cabinet room, sorted through intelligence and advised the president during the cuban missile crisis. Castro, mikoyan, kennedy, khrushchev, and the missiles of november by sergo mikoyan, ed.
The cuban missile crisis, commonly known as the caribbean crisis in russian terms and october crisis in cuban terms is the time highlighting the juxtaposition between the soviet union, cuba, and the united states. Thirteen days describes the meetings held by the executive committee excomm, the team assembled by us president john f. Step by step, robert kennedy gets us through those perilous days when a misunderstanding, a misstep could certainly have cause the end of mankind. Kennedy library, sta26162 the cuban missile war was the most devastating war in world history. Explaining the cuban missile crisis 2nd edition summary hillbilly elegy. At midday, and again in the early evening of october 16, 1962, john f. Available in the national security archives microfiche collection, the cuban missile crisis, 1962. Inside the white house during the cuban missile crisis edited by ernest r. Inside the white house during the cuban missile crisis, a 2000 docudrama directed by roger donaldson about the crisis. Kennedy and nikita khrushchev during the cuban missile crisis, michael dobbs, author of. Inside the white house during the cuban missile crisis essence of decision.
In russia, it is known as the caribbean crisis russian. Cuban missile crisis, major confrontation at the height of the cold war that brought the united states and the soviet union to the brink of a shooting war in october 1962 over the presence of soviet nucleararmed missiles in cuba. In six concise chapters, alice george introduces the history of cold war america and contextualizes its political, social, and cultural legacy. Stern, worked as a historian at the kennedy library in boston from 1977 to. The cuban missile crisis download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. Cuban missile crisis world history free pdf download. Khrushchevs secret dispatch of nuclear missiles to fidel castros revolutionary cuba and us president john f. The following year, a direct hot line communication link was installed between washington and moscow to help defuse similar situations, and the superpowers signed two treaties related to nuclear weapons. Cuban missile crisis simple english wikipedia, the free. New books on the cuban missile crisis the fourteenth day. Explaining the cuban missile crisis, epub 2nd edition pdf, epub, docx and torrent then this site is not for you.
It goes takes a very indepth, academic look at the missile crisis and explores how and why events happened the way they did. Garthoff, a participant in the cuban missile crisis deliberations of the u. A whatif history of the cuban missile crisis potomac, 2010, as well as nine other books, and is an associate professor. Belfer centers top 10 books on the cuban missile crisis belfer centers catalog of reading on nuclear danger today john f. Michael dobbs has pored over previously untapped american, soviet and cuban sources to provide the most authoritative book yet on the cuban missile crisis. In his hourbyhour chronicle of those nearfatal days, dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that show how close we came to armageddon. In this book, we will be talking about one of those occasions. Kennedy s account of the cuban missile crisis of 1962. As we saw earlier, the key to being a good chess player is to try and understand what the other player is thinking and what they want. Kennedy john swift examines the events that led the world to the brink of nuclear catastrophe.
The cuban missile crisis was a time of heightened confrontation between the soviet union, the united states, and cuba during the cold war. Have you ever heard of the cuban missile crisis or what happened during it. Stressing the importance of context in relation to. Reproductions of 83 documents are presented chronologically, in four introduced sections. Kennedy relied on a history book to guide him in the cuban missile crisis and we now know that book was wrong by jordan michael smith globe correspondent, october 21, 2012, 12. Kennedy presidential library and museum the cuban missile crisis, october 1962. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the cuban missile crisis into a brief and accessible narrative history. At the time of the missile crisis, the soviets had 36 intercontinental ballistic missiles icbms, 8 longrange bombers with 392 nuclear warheads, and 72 submarinelaunched ballisticmissile. When president kennedy found out, he was not happy. The cuban missile crisis revisited though much was made of the conflagration between john f. The cuban missile crisis at 55 maps and charts prepared by cuban historians for the 55th anniversary of the missile crisis showing deployments of soviet forces missiles and troops, range of soviet missiles, and scope of u. Book overview new york times bestselling author jeff shaara brings alive the heartstopping days and nights of the cuban missile crisis in a novel featuring his trademark you are there immediacy.
Fortunatly, kennedy and khrouchtchev kept cool heads and did not listen to. The memoirhistory is wellwritten, though i wouldnt call it a comprehensive document of the entire episode. Fortunatly, kennedy and khrouchtchev kept cool heads and did not listen to war hawks on both sides. Kennedys memoir of the cuban missile crisis that occurs from october 16 to october 28,1962. A halfcentury after the event it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that rfks thirteen days and the personal memoirs of other. Oct 16, 2017 the cuban missile crisis at 55 maps and charts prepared by cuban historians for the 55th anniversary of the missile crisis showing deployments of soviet forces missiles and troops, range of soviet missiles, and scope of u. 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. If youre looking for a free download links of essence of decision. E j carter provides an account of the cuban missile crisis of 1962, a cold war event in which the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war, and discusses some of the people who worked to find a peaceful. If you want a more tacticallevel perspective on the cuban missile crisis, check out blue moon over cuba. 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. 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.
Kennedy called together a group of his closest advisers at the white house. I cannot think of a single more important book, in any discipline, that has helped me understand another partys point of view and decisionmaking. The book was released in 1969, a year after his assassination. Facing down the buildup of soviet missiles in cuba in 1962, president john f. A national security archive documents reader by laurence chang editor the book evolved from a sixyear project to obtain, organize, and disseminate the declassified records of the cuban missile crisis.
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