High noon in the Cold War : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis / Max Frankel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Ballantine Books, 2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 206 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0345465059
  • 9780345465054
  • 0345466713
  • 9780345466716
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: High noon in the Cold War.DDC classification:
  • 327.47073/09/046 22
  • 973.922 22
LOC classification:
  • E841 .F68 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
The crisis in memory -- The palms of spring -- The missiles of October -- K v. K -- The thorn in the flesh -- The rockets hit home -- Only one will face the bull -- And who will blink? -- No very good war -- All of them? -- How far the brink.
Summary: An examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis analyzes the roles, objectives, and actions of John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the October 1962 showdown between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
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"A Presidio Press book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.

The crisis in memory -- The palms of spring -- The missiles of October -- K v. K -- The thorn in the flesh -- The rockets hit home -- Only one will face the bull -- And who will blink? -- No very good war -- All of them? -- How far the brink.

An examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis analyzes the roles, objectives, and actions of John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the October 1962 showdown between the U.S. and Soviet Union.

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