The Silent Guns of Two Octobers: Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game

by Theodore Voorhees

Book Overview

The Silent Guns of Two Octobers uses new as well as previously under-appreciated documentary evidence to link the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff to achieve the impossible--craft a new, thoughtful, original analysis of a political showdown everyone thought they knew everything about. Ultimately the book concludes that much of the Cold War rhetoric the leaders employed was mere posturing; in reality neither had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472038710
• ISBN13: 9780472038718
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"