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The Cuban Missile Crisis
A Concise History

Don Munton and David A. Welch

Price: £10.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517860-9
Publication date: 28 September 2006
144 pages, 15 illus. & 5 maps,

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This book fills the gap between the longer, more detailed texts on the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the popular histories, most notably Robert F. Kennedy's Thirteen Days (and the 2000 TV movie of the same title). Munton and Welch have written a short, readable text that stresses the big picture, answers the important questions and corrects the historical inaccuracies of Thirteen Days . The authors make use of newly available sources from US and Russian archives to present Soviet and Cuban perspectives in the crisis, which have in the past been unavailable or downplayed.

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Dramatis Personae (and Positions in October 1962)
Introduction
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
Index

Authors, editors, and contributors


Don Munton, Professor and Founding Chair of International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia and
David A. Welch, Professor of Political Science and George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto


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