Good books on the cuban missile crisis

The author editor collected all relevant analysis that had approached the event. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Every sentence in the above paragraph describing the cuban missile crisis is misleading or erroneous. Naval war college this caveat notwithstanding, william medland proves it can be done. The crisis was a defining moment in the presidency of john f. Indeed, his the cuban missile crisis of 1962 is so good that he makes the task look easy. Good book to understand the factors that played into how the cuban missle crisis came about. Kennedy to handle the tense situation that developed between the united states and the soviet. I think the book is intended for teens and up, although it is short.

I have never imagined that the crisis can be analysed in such a way in extremely complex and multiview ways. Kennedy, 19171963 by robert dallek little, brown, to. William medlands the cuban missile crisis of 1962 is outstanding and necessary to a good understanding of the missile crisis. As we come up towards the 50th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis, there are several new books coming out commemorating the crisis, adding new information and interpretation, and taking fresh looks at what history remembers as the most dangerous crisis of the nuclear age. Stern, worked as a historian at the kennedy library in boston from 1977 to. Discover librarianselected research resources on cuban missile crisis from the questia online library, including fulltext online books. If you want a more tacticallevel perspective on the cuban missile crisis, check out blue moon over cuba. I didnt think there was another thing one could write about the cuban missile crisis, but this is so well done.

The great tragedy was that, if we erred, we erred not only for ourselves, our futures, our hopes, and our country. The cuban missile crisis by history, documentary and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. A case in national security crisis management, and cuban missile crisis of 1962 studies in the employment of air power, and chapter titles such as the rhetoric of deflection. Cuban missile crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the united states and the soviet union. This is a prosoviet history the soviets are the good guys and the americans are the bad guys. Cuban missile crisis of finds frequent citation to book titles the cuban missile crisis of 1962.

Lets begin with rfk, who has been lionized as a clever statesmen, partly due to his own posthumous 1969 book on the crisis. List of books and articles about cuban missile crisis. In october 1962, at the height of the cold war, the united states and the soviet union came to the brink of nuclear conflict ove the deployment of soviet missiles to cuba. 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. The authors purpose for this book is to help people better understand what the cuban missile crisis was, which is told in a third person narrative. The cuban missile crisis exemplified the cold war between 1945 and 1991 between the us and russia. The cuban missile crisis was the signature moment of john f.

The cuban missile crisis, october 1962 office of the. 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. Recently declassified documents help recreate the cuban missile crisis on the. 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. What are some of the best nonfiction books on the cuban. New books on the cuban missile crisis the fourteenth day. It also gives an excellent portrayal of presidental decision making.

Kennedy presidential library and museum the cuban missile crisis, october 1962. Reading lists cuban missile crisiscuban missile crisis. Aerial reconnaissance during the cuban missile crisis by capt. Here are the books that were most helpful to me in writing my narrative history of the days that brought the world to the the brink of nuclear war. Possibly because most were written during or shortly after the event, this collection of essays by commentators of various political stripes takes a narrow view of the missile crisis. Paratrooper exercise is all about the preparation and the jump, march 17 news story.

Kennedy and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. The kennedy planners were making some very dangerous choices and pursuing policies which they thought had a good chance of leading to nuclear war, and they knew that britain would a striking example of this was in 1962, the time of the cuban missile crisis. We always have to keep in mind that a documentary, after all, can tell lies and it can tell lies because it lays claim to a form of veracity which fiction doesnt. One minute to midnight is indeed good book to read. The book was released in 1969, a year after his assassination thirteen days describes the meetings held by the executive committee, the team assembled by us president john f. In this book, we read about the discovery by the us that the russians placed bombs in cuba that could be sent rapidly to the us and destroy much of the country. Many other books concerning the crisis dont illustrate nearly as many implications that the various power centers had to deal with. Robert kennedys posthumous book days doesnt paint an accurate picture of his own position and omits several things that were still classified when he and sorensen wrote it, but it does g. Presidential decisionmaking and its effect on military employment during the kennedy administration fidel castro, domino theory, covert operations, khrushchev. Hundreds of books have been written about the cuban missile crisis. The cuban missile crisis in american memory by sheldon m. Kennedys account of the cuban missile crisis of 1962. Only adam ulam, the harvard kremlinologist, seriously pursues the geopolitical context, offering the theory that khrushchev precipitated.

List of books and articles about cuban missile crisis online. He was good at hitting on, but sketchy about hitting off. Michael dobbs has pored over previously untapped american, soviet and cuban sources to provide the most authoritative book yet on the cuban missile crisis. Provides detailed information on the events that took place during the cuban missile crisis in 1962. The cuban missile crisis of october 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the united states and the soviet union during the cold war and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. Khrushchevs secret dispatch of nuclear missiles to fidel castros revolutionary cuba and us president john f. Kennedy relied on a history book to guide him in the cuban missile crisis and we now know that book was wrong. A striking example of this was in 1962, the time of the cuban missile crisis. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the cuban missile crisis into a brief narrative history. 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.

Aside from the fact that the same secondary sources are repeatedly quoted, this title provides a good overview of the crisis and the underlying reasons for soviet and american actions. The most dramatic moments of that crisis the famed thirteen dayslasted from october 16, 1962, when president kennedy first learned that the soviet union was constructing missile launch sites in cuba, to october 28, when soviet premier nikita khrushchev. The cuban missile crisis the cold war by peter chrisp hodder wayland, 2001 an unfinished life. There is really nothing in this book that is inconsistent with what khrushchev wrote in his memoirs dictated in the late 1960s. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the cuban missile crisis into a brief and accessible narrative history. The cuban missile crisis as it came to be known is very well explained in this book by the charles river editors the briefings to the president and the flavour of the tense moments is well described. A concise history, second edition, don munton and david a. Most of what you know about the cuban missile crisis is. The new book is titled the cuban missile crisis in american memory. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our. The cuban missile crisis, declassified nuclear warfare.

The authors draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes, events, consequences, and significance. But this was the rendition of events that the kennedy administration fed to a credulous press. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. As we come up towards the 50th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis. The question was how to deal with the issue without causing a nuclear war. The cuban missile crisis involved a single discrete set of circumstances. Belfer centers top 10 books on the cuban missile crisis belfer centers catalog of reading on nuclear danger today john f. This book is not only the best ive seen concerning the cuban missile crisis, but it also provides an excellent veiw of international policy making.

The article about paratroopers, their preparation and the. Have you ever heard of the cuban missile crisis or what happened during it. Two newsworthy 1987 conferences on the cuban missile crisis are the focus of blight and welchs extraordinary piece of scholarship. The first half of missile crisis covers the events leading up to the momentous days of october, 1962. The 1997 published transcripts of the jfk cuban missile crisis tapes. The claim in the dust jacket that this book rewrites the conventional history of the 1962 missile crisis is simply.