The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Lynne Schmidt ISBN13: 9780395825266

ISBN13: 9780395825266

Published: 12/21/2005

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Publisher: Anthony Bourdain/Ecco

The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Lynne Schmidt ISBN13: 9780395825266The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic narrative written especially for students and general readers, Sheldon M. Stern, longtime historian at the John F. Kennedy Library, enables the reader to follow the often harrowing twists and turns of the crisis. Based on the author's authoritative transcriptions of the secretly recorded ExComm meetings, the