The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November

by Sergo Mikoyan

Book Overview

Based on secret transcripts of top-level diplomacy undertaken by the number-two Soviet leader, Anastas Mikoyan, to settle the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, this book rewrites conventional history. The "missiles of October" and "13 days" were only half the story: the nuclear crisis actually stretched well into November 1962 as the Soviets secretly planned to leave behind in Cuba over 100 tactical nuclear weapons, then reversed themselves because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804762023
• ISBN13: 9780804762021
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"