High noon in the Cold War : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis / / Max Frankel.

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Frankel, Max, 1930-

High noon in the Cold War : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis / / Max Frankel.

New York : Ballantine Books, 2004.

xiv, 206 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

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"A Presidio Press book"--T.p. verso.

An examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis analyzes the roles, objectives, and actions of John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the October 1962 showdown between the U.S. and Soviet Union.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-191) and index.

The crisis in memory -- The palms of spring -- The missiles of October -- K v. K -- The thorn in the flesh -- The rockets hit home -- Only one will face the bull -- And who will blink? -- No very good war -- All of them? -- How far the brink.

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971.

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.

United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.

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