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Summary:

When the world held its breath. It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the closest the world has yet come to nuclear war, a time when the hands of the Doomsday Clock really did inch towards the witching hour of midnight. By placing nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island of Cuba where, potentially, they were able to threaten the eastern seaboard of the USA, Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Union escalated the Cold War to a level that everyone feared but had never previously thought possible. In a desperate and dangerous game of brinkmanship, for thirteen nerve-wracking days Premier Khrushchev and President Kennedy held the fate of the world in their hands. Kennedy, in particular, wrestled with a range of options allow the missiles to stay, launch an air strike on the sites or invade Cuba. In the end, he did none of these but the solution to one of the deadliest dilemmas of the twentieth century proved to be a brave and dramatic moment in human history.

Author/Creator:

Carradice, Phil , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The Cuban missile crisis: thirteen days on an atomic knife edge, October 1962 [by Carradice, P.]

Related Series:

Cold War, 1945-1991

Subjects:

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Cold War

Military bases, Soviet — Cuba

Ballistic missiles — Cuba

Airplanes, Military — Cuba

United States — Foreign relations — Soviet Union

Soviet Union — Foreign relations — United States

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

Cold War (1945-1989)

1945-1989

Ballistic missiles

Airplanes, Military

Diplomatic relations

Military bases, Soviet

United States

Soviet Union

Cuba

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

E841 .C37 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781526708083 (electronic bk.)
1526708086 (electronic bk.)
152670806X [Invalid]
9781526708069 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1007752712

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5111097 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp14923035