M. White

The Cuban Missile Crisis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis happen? How was it resolved? By focusing on the roles of a number of key individuals, such as JFK, Robert Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, and by using recently declassified materials, this book frames answers to these questions. In so doing, it presents a cluster of new findings and arguments, including a fresh interpretation of Khrushchev's motives for putting missiles in Cuba, new information on the mystery surrounding Senator Kenneth Keating's secret sources, and evidence indicating that JFK planned to carry out a military strike on Cuba at the start of the crisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-39384-8
• 1st ed. 1996
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781349393848
• ISBN-10: 1349393843
• Artikelnr.: 45582816

Autorenporträt

MARK J. WHITE

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Approaching Camelot: John F. Kennedy and the Tools of a New Frontiersman - Kennedy's Cuban Policies: Misconceptions and Missed Opportunities - Nikita Khrushchev and the Decision to Deploy - The Fall Offensive of Senator Keating - Belligerent Beginnings: JFK on the Opening Day - The Battle for Blockade: Robert Kennedy versus Dean Acheson - Adlai Stevenson: Hamlet in New York - Denouement - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index