Larger	Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
	Book Information Publisher: W. W. Norton Company Book Type: Paperback Rating: 6 ISBN-13: 9780393318340 - ISBN-10: 0393318346 Publication Date: 11/1999 Pages: 192 Book Reviews

The unique, gripping account of the perilous showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In a clear and simple record, he describes the personalities involved in the crisis, with particular attention to the actions and attitudes of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. He describes the daily, even hourly, exchanges between Russian representatives and American. In firsthand immediacy we see the frightening responsibility of two great nations holding the fate of the world in their hands.