At the Edge of the Abyss: A Declassified Documentary History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
In the last two weeks of October 1962, the world came closer to nuclear warfare than it ever has. For 14 tense days, United States President John F Kennedy and Soviet Premiere Nikita Kruschev stood eyeball to eyeball, each with his hand on the nuclear trigger. In the end, both sides blinked. This volume is a collection of declassified documents from American and Soviet archives, detailing the history of those two weeks. Preface gives an overview and timeline of the crisis.
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At the Edge of the Abyss: A Declassified Documentary History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
In the last two weeks of October 1962, the world came closer to nuclear warfare than it ever has. For 14 tense days, United States President John F Kennedy and Soviet Premiere Nikita Kruschev stood eyeball to eyeball, each with his hand on the nuclear trigger. In the end, both sides blinked. This volume is a collection of declassified documents from American and Soviet archives, detailing the history of those two weeks. Preface gives an overview and timeline of the crisis.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781934941898 |
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| Publisher: | Red and Black Publishers |
| Publication date: | 04/27/2010 |
| Pages: | 326 |
| Sales rank: | 764,215 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d) |
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