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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen Days A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Author: Robert F. Kennedy
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 c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393318340
ISBN-10: 0393318346
Publication Date: 11/1999
Pages: 192
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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 buzzby avatar reviewed Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis on + 6062 more book reviews
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RFK's "book" is only 80 or so pages long, there is an interesting forward written by Arthur Schlesinger in 1992 and an "afterward" written in the early 1970s.
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Perhaps biased because it's by RFK, but he did have the inside scoop and the communication between Russia and USA was very interesting and intense.
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 buzzby avatar reviewed Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis on + 6062 more book reviews
It seemed the amount of information that could/needed to be processed was much smaller than today. 13 days seems like an eternity, and one gets the impression that the powers that be could have plenty of time to think about the situation in depth.


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