The Cuban Missile Crisis : origins, course and aftermath / Jonathan Colman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colman, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.

Physical Description:

viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016].

Summary:

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a six-day clash in October 1962 between the States and the Soviet Union over the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Both John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were determined to avoid nuclear war, but events could easily have spiralled out of control with cataclysmic results. This book provides a lucid and up-to-date introduction to the Crisis, including American responsibility for causing it, and Cuba's role as an important actor rather than a superpower pawn. Drawing on an extensive body of research, including material released only on the fiftieth anniversary of the crisis, this book places the event in a broader international and chronological context than ever before. It features a number of primary source documents, some of which have rarely - if ever - been reproduced, and includes a discussion of the legacies of the Crisis. Key features and Benefits, A concise and engaging to one of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes in history, Up-to-date coverage, supplementing analysis with recently released documents and both Soviet and Cuban primary source material, Features a rare exploration of the global dimensions of the Crisis, including the contribution from numerous countries in Latin America and Europe, Provides an account of the aftermath including some of the troubling legacies in theatres such as Vietnam. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The United States, the Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1959-61 11

2 The Decision to Base Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, Spring-Summer 1962 42

3 Discovering the Missile Bases, 14-22 October 1962 63

4 Confrontation, 22-25 October 1962 92

5 A World Crisis, 22-28 October 1962 116

6 Nadir and Resolution, 26-28 October 1962 146

7 Aftermath I, November-December 1962 171

8 Aftermath II, 1963-70 195.

ISBN:

074869630X

9780748696307

9780748696284

0748696288

OCLC:

914326142