13 Days: A Short History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

by James K. Wheaton

The world remembers the thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis as a very close brush with nuclear war between the Cold War?s two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The reality is that the crisis was the result of a culmination of actions taken by the U.S. to strengthen its military might in the world, to a degree that left the Soviets fast falling far behind. Cuba was a pawn that was played to exact leveraged balance over the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477420916
• ISBN13: 9781477420911
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.1" x 5.0"