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050 00 $aE841$b.M796 2007
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100 1 $aMunton, Don.
245 14 $aThe Cuban Missile Crisis :$ba concise history /$cDon Munton, David A. Welch.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2007.
300 $axv, 119 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 104-112) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the REAL thirteen days? -- 1. Background to the crisis -- US-Cuban relations in historical perspective -- The Bay of Pigs and Operation Mongoose -- The Soviet decision to deploy -- 2. Deployment and discovery -- Details of the deployment -- The intelligence game of cat and mouse -- Warnings too late -- On the eve of crisis -- 3. From discovery to blockade -- The storm before the calm -- Narrowing the options -- Decision : the calm before the storm -- 4. The perfect storm -- The speech -- Carrots and sticks -- Khrushchev and Kennedy waver -- The crisis heats up -- The Dobrynin meeting -- Climax and resolution -- 5. Aftermath -- Removing the missiles from Cuba -- The Cuban bomber crisis -- The domestic and international public reaction -- Steps toward détente : the hot line and test ban -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic essay -- Early treatments of the crisis -- The second wave : "critical oral history" -- Recent accounts -- Background and history -- Aftermath -- Document collections and Websites -- Film.
650 0 $aCuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
700 1 $aWelch, David A.
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