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The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History | 
 enlarge | Authors: Don Munton, David A. Welch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 298502
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0195178602
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.922
EAN: 9780195178609
ASIN: 0195178602
Publication Date: July 13, 2006
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Product Description
In The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History, Don Munton and David A. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the Cuban missile crisis into a brief narrative history. The authors draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes, events, consequences, and significance. Stressing the importance of context in relation to the genesis, conduct, and resolution of the crisis, Munton and Welch examine it from the U.S., Soviet, and Cuban angles, revealing the vital role differences in national perspectives played at every stage. While the book provides a concise, up-to-date look at this pivotal event, it also notes gaps and mysteries in the historical record and highlights important persistent interpretive disputes. The authors provide a detailed guide to the literature and film for those who wish to explore further. The Cuban Missile Crisis is ideal for undergraduate courses on the 1960s, U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, twentieth-century world history, and comparative foreign policy.
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As Advertised September 5, 2007
Garrett E. Garner (UF/Gainesville, FL USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book did exactly what the authors set out to do: identify and examine the main points of the Cuban Missile Crisis. For those looking for an in-depth historical examination, buy something different. If you are interested in understanding the events surrounding the Crisis and the Thirteen days of the event itself, buy this book.
Also interesting are the parallels drawn between Kennedy's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis and our current administration's disastrous foray into Iraq. Maybe someone should send Dubya a copy... it would probably be a quick read even for him.
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