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Thirteen days : a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis

Robert F. Kennedy, Arthur M. Schlesinger
Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis
Print Book, English, 1999, ©1971
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W.W. Norton, New York, 1999, ©1971
185 pages ; 21 cm
9780393318340, 0393318346
43069020
1962
Bases militaires soviétiques Cuba
Crise de Cuba, oct. 1962
Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Diplomatic relations
États-Unis Relations extérieures URSS
Kubakrise
Military bases, Soviet
Military bases, Soviet Cuba
Soviet Union
Soviet Union Foreign relations United States
URSS Relations extérieures États-Unis
United States
United States Foreign relations Soviet Union
Foreword7(12)
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
``Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962...''
19(7)
``The President...knew he would have to act.''
26(8)
``A majority opinion...for a blockade...''
34(3)
``It was now up to one single man.''
37(8)
``The important meeting of the OAS...''
45(5)
``I met with Dobrynin...''
50(6)
``The danger was anything but over.''
56(5)
``There were almost daily communications with Khrushchev.''
61(4)
``Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion.''
65(5)
``This would mean war.''
70(6)
``Those hours in the Cabinet Room...''
76(4)
``The President ordered the Ex Comm...''
80(5)
``Some of the things we learned...''
85(10)
``The importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes.''
95(4)
Afterword99(48)
Richard E. Neustadt
Graham T. Allison
Documents147(28)
A Short Bibliography175(2)
Index177
"Reissued in Norton paperback with a new foreword 1999"--Title page verso