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Title:
Thirteen Days
Genre:
History
Memoir
Military
Politics
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Binding:
Hardcover
Edition:
1st
Type of Book:
Non-Fiction
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:16:26
Synopsis:
On Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962, shortly after nine o’clock President Kennedy called and asked me to come to the White House. He said only that we were facing great trouble. Shortly afterward, in his office, he told me that a U-2 had just finished a photographic mission and that the Intelligence Community had become convinced that Russia was placing missiles and atomic weapons in Cuba.
That was the beginning of the Cuban missile crisis—a confrontation between the two giant atomic nations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which brought the world to the abyss of nuclear destruction and the end of mankind.
Thus the late Senator Robert F. Ken- • nedy began his account, in this intensely moving and dramatic document, of the agonizing events of those thirteen days when America confronted Russia in the Caribbean—the Russians raced to establish an atomic capability that would threaten the entire American continent and America mobilized her military and diplomatic forces in a supreme effort to prevent the establishment of intercontinental missiles in Cuba.
That was the beginning of the Cuban missile crisis—a confrontation between the two giant atomic nations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which brought the world to the abyss of nuclear destruction and the end of mankind.
Thus the late Senator Robert F. Ken- • nedy began his account, in this intensely moving and dramatic document, of the agonizing events of those thirteen days when America confronted Russia in the Caribbean—the Russians raced to establish an atomic capability that would threaten the entire American continent and America mobilized her military and diplomatic forces in a supreme effort to prevent the establishment of intercontinental missiles in Cuba.
Author:
Robert Kennedy
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Publisher:
W. W. Norton
Barcode:
9780393098969
Number of Copies:
1
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$14.95
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-11-20
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:16:26
