Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile CrisisW. W. Norton & Company, 25 abr 2011 - 192 páginas "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. |
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... prepared to interrogate them. The Havana conference was the fifth in a series of conferences on the missile crisis. What began as an all-American affair next acquired Russian participants. Cubans complained that everyone called it the ...
... preparation for invasion by U.S. forces. Castro, again not unreasonably, turned to the Soviet Union as Cuba's protector. He hoped, through a proclamation or an alliance or Soviet conventional military aid, to deter American aggression ...
... a sneak air attack, even when a majority of the Ex Comm favored it. That is why he prepared to enlist the United Nations in fallback plans in case bilateral negotiation faltered. That is why from an early point he saw a.
... prepared to sign an atmospheric-testban treaty if we could make certain agreements on underground testing. I told him I would transmit this message and the accompanying documents to President Kennedy. I told him we were deeply concerned ...
... prepared by Nicholas Katzenbach, the Deputy Attorney General, and myself, the President issued exactly this kind of warning and pointed out the serious consequences that would result from such a step. A week later, on September 11 ...
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The important meeting of the OAS | |
The danger was anything but over | |
This would mean war | |
Some of the things we learned | |
THE CUBAN MISSILE | |
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT KENNEDY | |
A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis Robert F. Kennedy No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1969 |
Thirteen Days: A Memoir Of The Cuban Missile Crisis Robert F Kennedy No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2000 |