David's review
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Robert F. Kennedy
David's review
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy
David's review
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bookshelves:
history,
kennedy,
non-fiction,
politics
In the 45 years since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we've witnessed America's involvement in the Vietnam War, the first Gulf War and the current Iraq War, not to mention the hijackings of September 11, 2001. It may be difficult now to realize how close America and Russia came to total destruction in October 1962, but Robert Kennedy's book, written from the perspective of one who was there, manages to capture much of that feeling. Of course, both the author and the reader knew how the crisis was resolved and that it didn't end up in the fiery finale many expected at the time. That's the element of the story that is hard to recapture, that feeling of uncertainty that existed at the time.
