Thirteen days : a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis /
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 a clear and simple record, he describes the personalities...
| Основен автор: | Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
W.W. Norton,
1969.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
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Съдържание:
- Introduction / Robert S. McNamara
- Introduction / Harold Macmillan
- Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962
- The President ... knew he would have to act
- A majority decision ... for a blockade
- It was not up to one single man
- The important meeting of the OAS...
- I met with Dobrynin...
- The danger was anything but over
- There were almost daily communications with Krushchev
- Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion
- This could mean war
- Those hours in the Cabinet Room...
- The President ordered the Ex Comm...
- Some of the things we learned...
- The importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes.