The Cuban Missile Crisis

by Mark White and Mark J. White

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333630521
• ISBN13: 9780333630525
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"