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The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780804767538
DOI
10.1515/9780804767538
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
33 MB (34814064 bytes)
Pages
256\256
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 21:42:07

Description

The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic and succinct narrative, Sheldon M. Stern enables the reader to follow the often harrowing twists and turns of the crisis.

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