As we come up towards the 50th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis in october 2012, there are new books coming out. The executive committee of the national security council excomm, meeting in the white house cabinet room, sorted through intelligence and advised the president during the cuban missile crisis. Kennedy addresses the nation on the evening of monday, october 22, 1962. Svetlana savranskaya mikoyan archive reveals cuba a nearnuclear power new book shows crisis unresolved until november 22, 1962. Garthoff, a participant in the cuban missile crisis deliberations of the u. This book explains the critical events, along with the experiences of those who execute presidential commands in times of national crisis. Mar 24, 2020 robert kennedys account of the cuban missile crisis is brief, bracing and revealing. Drawing on revealing new research, this richly informative volume is the definitive concise introduction to the crisis that took the world to the brink of nuclear war.
Available in the national security archives microfiche collection, the cuban missile crisis, 1962. The crisis was a defining moment in the presidency of john f. His new book marshals irrefutable evidence to succinctly demolish the mythic version of the crisis. If you want a more tacticallevel perspective on the cuban missile crisis, check out blue moon over cuba. National security archive publications on the cuban missile crisis. In his hourbyhour chronicle of those nearfatal days, dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that show how close we came to armageddon. Most books on the cuban missile crisis tell the story through the perspective of memoirs of those who advised president kennedy, as he struggled to avoid world war iii. New book lays out for the first time the full story of. This book tells the story of the cuban missile crisis in 1962, the struggle that president kennedy and his advisers including the author, who was head of intelligence at the state department went through to try to understand why the soviet union had put nuclear missiles in cuba, the alternative policies they debated to deal with the presence of the missiles, the aftermath of the crisis, and. Most of what you know about the cuban missile crisis is wrong. This book explains the critical events, along with the experiences of those who execute presidential commands in. Draws on new sources to examine one of the most dramatic and dangerous. New book reveals untold story of the cuban missile crisis 12.
Lang, offers a fresh exploration of the 1962 cuban missile crisis and plumbs its lessons on the. Inside the white house during the cuban missile crisis. The wisdom of jfk shines through this and other books i. The cuban missile crisis at 55 national security archive. Stern, worked as a historian at the kennedy library in boston from 1977 to. Even now, fresh history continues to blow holes in what we thought we knew. The threshold of nuclear war critical moments in american history series by alice george. They also took audience calls, faxes and electronic.
Cuban relations, without whose understanding it would be foolish to claim any pointed analysis on the subject. He joined sundial to talk about the book and share the stories of the. Cuban missile crisis, major confrontation at the height of the cold war that brought the united states and the soviet union to the brink of a shooting war in october 1962 over the presence of soviet nucleararmed missiles in cuba. Facing down the buildup of soviet missiles in cuba in 1962, president john f. National archives opens new cuban missile crisis exhibit. Jfk and the aftermath of the cuban missile crisis norton, 2012. Ripe for jeff shaaras vivid alchemy of factbased fiction, here is the cuban missile crisis as readers have never seen it.
The cuban missile crisis was the signature moment of john f. Written like a thriller, one minute to midnight is an exhaustively researched account of what arthur schlesinger, jr. A new book by longtime colleagues of the national security archive, james g. The cuban missile crisis ccea gcse history revision. Will pandemic make trump rethink national security. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the cuban missile crisis into a brief narrative history. For days in october 1962, the world appeared to stand on the brink of nuclear war. Robert kennedys account of the cuban missile crisis is brief, bracing and revealing. The book incorporates all the latest historiography on the topic. This book is an effort to tell the story of the cuban missile crisis through a selection from the many documents that were generated by these extraordinary events. Topaz, 1969 film by alfred hitchcock based on the 1967 novel by leon uris, set.
Kennedy said to john kenneth galbraith just after the cuban missile crisis. New book reveals untold story of the cuban missile crisis. Florida is preparing for coronavirus, transit alliances. This book provides a lucid and uptodate introduction to the crisis, including. For thirteen days in october of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the united states and ussr, as the superpowers argued over the installation of soviet nuclear weapons in cuba. An interesting book giving a good account of the cuban missile crisis from the standpoint of those making the decisions at the time. Kennedy took a calculated risk and succeeded in negotiating the removal of those weapons after weeks of teetering on the brink of war. Lang are the authors of six previous books on the cuban missile crisis. Castro, mikoyan, kennedy, khrushchev, and the missiles of november by sergo mikoyan, ed. Washington, dc, october 27, 2012 the cuban missile crisis continued long after the days celebrated by u. Coleman, a university of virginia professor specializing in nuclear. The new book is titled the cuban missile crisis in american memory.
Thirteen days is a look from within about the cuban missile crisis. In a new foreword, the distinguished historian and kennedy adviser arthur schlesinger, jr. Carlsbad novelist mccarthy uses cuban missile crisis as. Leave it to the canadians to write the best short volume on the cuban missile crisis that probably exists. Kennedy addresses the nation on the evening of monday, october 22, 1962, as the threat of soviet missiles in cuba nears its peak.
Welch distill the best current scholarship on the cuban missile crisis into a brief and accessible narrative history. The cuban missile crisis is the defining moment of john kennedys presidency. Aerial reconnaissance during the cuban missile crisis by capt. Kennedy took a calculated risk and succeeded in negotiating the removal of those weapons after weeks of. A concise history, second edition, don munton and david a.
In response to the bay of pigs invasion and other american actions against cuba as well as to president kennedys buildup in italy and turkey of u. This conference, focusing on the socalled cuban missile crisis of 1962, was the fifth in a series attended by former u. The authors draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes, events, consequences, and significance. The navys role in the cuban missile crisis was a substantial one. Most of what you know about the cuban missile crisis is.
Sep 14, 2012 most books on the cuban missile crisis tell the story through the perspective of memoirs of those who advised president kennedy, as he struggled to avoid world war iii. Focusing on the participants military activities, michael dobbs offers sobering new information about the 1962 cuban missile crisis. Lang, offers a fresh exploration of the 1962 cuban missile crisis and plumbs its lessons on the continuing dangers of nuclear war. Kennedy, cuban missile crisisrelated film screenings, and a program with the authors of the armageddon letters. Norton with a foreword by schlesinger and an afterword by richard e. Ripe for jeff shaaras vivid alchemy of factbased fiction, here is. Great leadership in a time of crisis the new york times. What are some of the best nonfiction books on the cuban. A harsh and terrible solution national security archive. On october 27, 1962, at the peak of the cuban missile crisis, with strategic air command at defcon 2 and soviet nuclear weapons in.
Download pdf thecubanmissilecrisis free online new. Jun 01, 2008 on october 27, 1962, at the peak of the cuban missile crisis, with strategic air command at defcon 2 and soviet nuclear weapons in. New york times bestselling author jeff shaara brings alive the heartstopping days and nights of the cuban missile crisis in a novel featuring his trademark you are there immediacy. National archives opens new cuban missile crisis exhibit in. Stressing the importance of context in relation to. Carlsbad writer susan carol mccarthy was 11 years old and living in florida in 1962 when the cuban missile crisis happened.
Step by step, robert kennedy gets us through those perilous days when a misunderstanding, a misstep could certainly have cause the end of mankind. The cuban missile crisis, also known as the october crisis of 1962 spanish. New book lays out for the first time the full story of cubas cuban. Popular cuban missile crisis books meet your next favorite book. Recently declassified documents help recreate the cuban missile crisis on. Thirtysix years after the cuban missile crisis, these declassified documents stand as testament to just how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962, and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management. In his book, tougias writes about a number of soldiers who lost their lives in combat, during the cuban missile crisis. List of books and articles about cuban missile crisis. New book shows crisis unresolved until november 22, 1962.
American vulnerability to soviet missiles was not new. May talked about the new book which they edited, the kennedy tapes. The cuban missile crisis edinburgh university press. Homing in on the cuban perspective, the book aims to fill a persistent gap in the history that not only skewed our understanding. The most dramatic moments of that crisisthe famed thirteen dayslasted from october 16, 1962, when president kennedy first learned that the soviet union was constructing missile launch sites in cuba, to october 28, when soviet premier nikita khrushchev. The cuban missile crisis was probably one of the most dangerous periods of the cold war. New books on the cuban missile crisis the fourteenth day. The cuban missile crisis forced kennedy to begin an era of arms control, and sept.
Book overview new york times bestselling author jeff shaara brings alive the heartstopping days and nights of the cuban missile crisis in a novel featuring his trademark you are there immediacy. Kennedy library, sta26162 the cuban missile war was the most devastating war in world history. The cuban missile crisis is the closest the united states came to nuclear war during the cold war era. Washington, dcthe national archives presents a free series of programs in october 2012, including a special panel discussion featuring opening remarks from caroline kennedy and the new book listening in.
Her memories helped form the backdrop for her new novel, a place we. Two newsworthy 1987 conferences on the cuban missile crisis are the focus of blight and welchs extraordinary piece of scholarship. Cuban missile crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the united states and the soviet union. E j carter provides an account of the cuban missile crisis of 1962, a cold war event in which the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war, and discusses some of the people who worked to find a peaceful. Michael dobbs has pored over previously untapped american, soviet and cuban sources to provide the most authoritative book yet on the cuban missile crisis. Not every interested person has the time or resources to sift through the vast quantity of secondary and primary materials available.