This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies ofthe 1962 Cuban M...This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from a global perspective. Despite the discoveries of recent research there is still much more to be revealed about the handling of nuclear weapons before...more
This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies ofthe 1962 Cuban M...This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from a global perspective. Despite the discoveries of recent research there is still much more to be revealed about the handling of nuclear weapons before...more
This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US Soviet and Cuban I...This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US Soviet and Cuban Intelligence in the nuclear crisis of 1962 - the closest the world has come to Armageddon.more
Based on secret transcripts of top-level diplomacy undertaken by the number-tw...Based on secret transcripts of top-level diplomacy undertaken by the number-two Soviet leader Anastas Mikoyan to settle the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 this book rewrites conventional history. The missiles of October and 13 days were only half the...more
This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies ofthe 1962 Cuban M...This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.more
Sergo Mikoyan who died in 2010 was a historian specializing in Latin America a...Sergo Mikoyan who died in 2010 was a historian specializing in Latin America and in Soviet-Latin American relations. Svetlana Savranskaya is a research fellow at the National Security Archive at George Washington University.more
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9780714644356. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. ...9780714644356. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 248. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 248 p. Studies in Intelligence. This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US Soviet and Cuban Intelligence...more
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Previous works on theCubanMissileCrisis (1962) have approached the topic fr...Previous works on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) have approached the topic from the point of view of the U.S. and its allies while Cuban experiences have still not been sufficiently discussed. This book presents new aspects which have seldom - or...more
This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to r...This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to revisit and review our understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis via a critical reappraisal of some of the key texts. In October 1962 humankind came close to the end of its...more
9781324035985. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. ...9781324035985. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 480. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 480 p. The definitive history....With his masterly book Mr. Plokhy has sounded a warning bell. -- The Economist A...more
For 13 days in October 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union confronted ...For 13 days in October 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other on the brink of potential nuclear disaster as they decided the fate of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. Excerpts of speeches meeting notes letters and...more
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  For thirteen days in October of 1962 a truly perilous flirtation with nucl...  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. Launched by rash judgment and...more