The Cuban Missile Crisis : a concise history

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Label

The Cuban Missile Crisis : a concise history

Title remainder

a concise history

Statement of responsibility

Don Munton, David A. Welch

Creator

• Munton, Don

Contributor

• Welch, David A

Subject

• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Language

eng

Summary

The authors distill the best current scholarship on the Cuban missile crisis into a brief narrative history. They draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes, events, consequences, and significance. Stressing the importance of context in relation to the genesis, conduct, and resolution of the crisis, the U.S., Soviet, and Cuban angles are examined, revealing the vital role differences in national perspectives played at every stage. While the book provides a concise, up-to-date look at this pivotal event, it also notes gaps and mysteries in the historical record and highlights important persistent interpretive disputes. The authors provide a detailed guide to the literature and film for those who wish to explore further. The Cuban Missile Crisis is ideal for undergraduate courses on the 1960s, U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, twentieth-century world history, and comparative foreign policy

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973.922

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E841

LC item number

.M796 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography