Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Robert F. Kennedy
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Author: Robert F. KennedyForeword: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-11
ISBN: 0393318346
Number of pages: 185
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Book Review: Narrow Escape
Summary: 5 Stars
The tale that Robert Kennedy lays down in Thirteen Days is a nail-biting modern thriller. It is difficult to imagine the state of the nation, and of the world, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The two greatest powers were ever at odds with each other, bubbling up into a dramatic crescendo. What would happen when the ships were told to halt outside of Cuba? Would the U.S.S.R. deliberately attack United States vessels and, ultimately, the mainland with nuclear weapons?
It is only with the gift of retrospection that we now know that it was by the diplomatic efforts of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and the myriad of others present in countless meetings held during the crisis that certain destruction was thwarted. The fact that so many individuals sought to promote all-out war and mutually assured destruction is an eye-opener to the chaos that nearly transpired. The sheer audacity that the Soviets had to first deny that platforms and warheads were being constructed, then that they were not to be used offensively, clearly identifies the madness that consumed them. They behaved as a child would when interrogated by a parent for a wrongdoing. The parent knows what is going on but the child, in an almost belligerent tone, acts as the Soviets did. Thus it was with a steady hand that President Kennedy punished the child, and the Soviets were driven to return back to their side of the playpen.
Summary of Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The unique, gripping account of the perilous showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In a clear and simple record, he describes the personalities involved in the crisis, with particular attention to the actions and attitudes of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. He describes the daily, even hourly, exchanges between Russian representatives and American. In firsthand immediacy we see the frightening responsibility of two great nations holding the fate of the world in their hands.Cuba Books
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