Week the World Stood Still - Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis

Zusatztext " The Week The World Stood Still is an impressive work of scholarship that is also highly recommended for non-specialist general readers with an interest in the history of the Cold War era." Informationen zum Autor Sheldon M. Stern was the Historian at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library from 1977 to 1999. He is author of Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (Stanford University Press, 2003). Klappentext " . . . The Week The World Stood Still is an impressive work of scholarship that is also highly recommended for non-specialist general readers with an interest in the history of the Cold War era."--The Midwest Book Review Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Stern Sheldon, Sheldon Stern, Sheldon M Stern, Sheldon M. Stern
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.01.2005
• EAN: 9780804750769
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5076-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series; Stanford Nuclear Age (Hardcove; Stanford Nuclear Age Series; Stanford Nuclear Age
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education