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Cuban Missile Crisis Books
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Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 10,907 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 8,863 ratings — published 1968
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 4,445 ratings — published 2008
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,568 ratings — published 2021
The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 100 ratings — published 2012
"One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 326 ratings — published 1981
Back Channel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,014 ratings — published 2014
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,373 ratings — published 1971
The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Secret White House Tapes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.56 — 130 ratings — published 2012
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 226 ratings — published 1997
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 317 ratings — published 1991
Fallout (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 3,763 ratings — published 2012
The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 50 ratings — published 2012
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 2,364 ratings — published 2022
The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 2,118 ratings — published 2024
October Fury (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 124 ratings — published 2002
Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,170 ratings — published 2010
The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 587 ratings — published 2011
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 4.20 — 116,252 ratings — published 2014
The Translator (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 918 ratings — published 2002
The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 98 ratings — published 2006
COUNSELOR: A Life at the Edge of History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,198 ratings — published 2008
High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 133 ratings — published 2004
The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
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avg rating 3.87 — 138 ratings — published 2005
Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 566 ratings — published 2012
The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Missiles of November (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 2012
The Fire-Eaters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 1,299 ratings — published 2003
Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cuban-missile-crisis)
avg rating 4.00 — 29 ratings — published 1992
The Quotable Chomsky (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.17 — 24 ratings — published 2014
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 628,715 ratings — published 2011
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 40,720 ratings — published 2024
The London Bookshop Affair (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 5,059 ratings — published 2024
The Cuban Missile Crisis: When Intelligence Made a Difference (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
When We Left Cuba (The Perez Family, #2)
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avg rating 4.01 — 45,734 ratings — published 2019
In The Shadows Of History: Fifty Years Behind The Scenes Of Cold War Diplomacy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2005
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,268 ratings — published 2021
The Lost Diary of M (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.12 — 877 ratings — published 2020
Topaz (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 5,620 ratings — published 1967
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 3,167 ratings — published 2017
Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,155 ratings — published 2017
Robert Kennedy: His Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 3,794 ratings — published 2000
Cuba: An American History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 5,188 ratings — published 2021
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 6,985 ratings — published 1965
Love & Saffron (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 17,421 ratings — published 2022
A Companion to John F. Kennedy (Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History)
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avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2014
The Basketball Diaries (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 31,577 ratings — published 1978
Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis: Revised to include New Revelations from Soviet & Cuban Sources (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.38 — 16 ratings — published 1988
Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 340 ratings — published 2020
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Volume 2: Reformer, 1945–1964 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 2006
Robert Kennedy and His Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 2,441 ratings — published 1978
“Hurricane Daisy delayed the continuing surveillance, however when they could resume flying on October 14th, the crystal-clear photos indicated that launch sites were being prepared for both mobile medium-sized missiles, and more extensive sites for the larger-sized ballistic missiles. Although the actual missiles were not yet in place, the CIA understood the enormity of the threat. Missiles that could reach 2,000 miles into the United States could not be ignored!
With Cuba only 90 miles to the south of Key West, it posed an extreme threat to national security. On October 22, 1962, the discovery of these missiles was finally announced to the public, and a naval quarantine was implemented around Cuba. President Kennedy was careful not to call it a “blockade,” since use of the word would be considered an act of war! Regardless, U.S. warships were deployed that would intercept and board any ship heading to the island. Castro announced that Cuba had the right to defend itself from American aggression. He added that the decision to deploy missiles was a joint action on the part of both Cuba and the Soviet Union. Kennedy discounted Castro’s bluster but not the threat. The final decision to remove the missiles from Cuban soil would be between Khrushchev and Kennedy, without any Cuban involvement. Allowing Khrushchev to save face, Kennedy agreed to remove American missiles aimed at the Soviet Union from Italy and Turkey. It also included a commitment that the United States would not invade Cuba.”
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With Cuba only 90 miles to the south of Key West, it posed an extreme threat to national security. On October 22, 1962, the discovery of these missiles was finally announced to the public, and a naval quarantine was implemented around Cuba. President Kennedy was careful not to call it a “blockade,” since use of the word would be considered an act of war! Regardless, U.S. warships were deployed that would intercept and board any ship heading to the island. Castro announced that Cuba had the right to defend itself from American aggression. He added that the decision to deploy missiles was a joint action on the part of both Cuba and the Soviet Union. Kennedy discounted Castro’s bluster but not the threat. The final decision to remove the missiles from Cuban soil would be between Khrushchev and Kennedy, without any Cuban involvement. Allowing Khrushchev to save face, Kennedy agreed to remove American missiles aimed at the Soviet Union from Italy and Turkey. It also included a commitment that the United States would not invade Cuba.”
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“If you read British Foreign Office records from the 1940s, it’s clear they recognised that their day in the sun was over and that Britain would have to be the “junior partner” of the United States, and sometimes treated in a humiliating way. A striking example of this was in 1962, the time of the Cuban missile crisis. The Kennedy planners were making some very dangerous choices and pursuing policies which they thought had a good chance of leading to nuclear war, and they knew that Britain would be wiped out. The US wouldn’t, because Russia’s missiles couldn’t reach there, but Britain would be wiped out.”
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