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The fires of October : the planned US invasion of Cuba during the missile crisis of 1962 / Blaine L. Pardoe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pardoe, Blaine Lee, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
- Cold War.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Stroud, England] : Fonthill Media, 2013.
- Contents:
- 1 Planning for War 15
- 2 The Arming of Cuba 32
- 3 The Battlefield: Cuba 57
- 4 The Crisis Emerges 65
- 5 Refining the Invasion Plan 80
- 6 The Shakedown 115
- 7 Policy and Mobilization 132
- 8 Showdowns and Tripwires 160
- 9 Operation Scabbards 177
- 10 Escalation 208.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1781551960
- 9781781551967
- OCLC:
- 862653813
- Publisher Number:
- 99957350831
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