The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (643 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01J9AGM6C |
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| Number of Pages | : | 149 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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It was during this period too that the United States and the Soviet Union launched the greatest arms race in history. Beschloss here examines the tense, dynamic and very dangerous relationship between the superpower leaders, John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, focusing largely on the 1961 summit conference regarding Berlin and the Cuban missile crisis of the following year. Photos. An exciting and informative narrative that will appeal to a wide readership. From Publishers Weekly During the years 1960-1963, the world came closer than at any time before or since to nuclear incineration. . government sources and oral and written reminiscences by Soviet figures recently made available to Western scholars, Beschloss ( Mayday ) expands our knowledge and understanding of Soviet decision-making wit
The Charismatics This book rescued me from the recent Taubman biography of Khruschev. Not that I didn't thoroughly enjoy Taubmanup until the point that Kennedy was assassinated. Somehow, without Kennedy to reflect off of, or react off of, or bark at, or explode at, Khruschev bec. Steven S. Berizzi said Comprehensive Study of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Relationship. This is a massive (700 page), comprehensive, if not especially analytic, study of the United States' relationship with the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, told from the perspectives of the superpowers' leaders, John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. At . Simply Superlative Over a decade has passed since "The Crisis Years" was published. Since then, additional details about The Cuban Missile Crisis as well as JFK's personal life have floated into public view. Yet, despite the availability of this "new" information, even a cursory r
Among the cast of characters are Robert Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Adlai Stevenson, Fidel Castro, Willy Brandt, Leonid Brezhnev, and Andrei Gromyko. The groundbreaking and revelatory tale of the most dangerous years of the Cold War and the two leaders who held the fate of the world in their hands. This bestselling history takes us into the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin Wall was built and the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union to the abyss. Beschloss discards previous myths to show how the miscalculations and conflicting ambitions of those leaders caused a nuclear confrontation that could have killed tens of millions of people. In this compelling narrative, author Michael Beschloss, praised by Newsweek as “the nation’s leading Presi