The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Struggle Over Policy

by Roger Hilsman

Book Overview

This book tells the story of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the struggle that President Kennedy and his advisers (including the author, who was head of intelligence at the State Department) went through to try to understand why the Soviet Union had put nuclear missiles in Cuba, the alternative policies they debated to deal with the presence of the missiles, the aftermath of the crisis, and the lessons learned about defense and foreign policy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275954358
• ISBN13: 9780275954352
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"