Fursenko, A. A.

Contents: Red star ascendant -- Geneva -- Arms to Egypt -- Suez -- Twin crises -- "Khrushchey's comet" -- Coup in Iraq -- "A bone in my throat" -- Khrushchev in America -- Grand design -- The crash heard round the world -- Castro and Lumumba -- Southeast Asian test -- "He is a son of a bitch." -- Iron ring -- "The storm in Berlin is over" -- Meniscus -- "I think we will win this operation" -- Cuban...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2006

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Lawton, John

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2003

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Carlson, Peter

Summary: Recounts Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America against the backdrop of the Cold War and a capitalist America living under the shadow of the hydrogen bomb.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2009

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Taubman, William.

Summary: Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Ukraine, Taubman (political science, Amherst College) writes a thorough biography of one of the most complex and important political figures of the 20th century whose life and career spanned revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization, terror, world war, the Cold War, Stalinism, and post-Stalinism. Includes two sections of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003

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Beschloss, Michael R.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1986

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Coleman, David G.

Summary: Describes what was going on in the Oval Office as the highly-charged events leading up the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded, as well as the immediate aftermath, based on secret recordings made by President Kennedy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012

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Frankel, Max

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004

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Heywood, Joseph.

Summary: In 1960, a group of Red Army officers are planning to have Khrushchev assassinated. At the same time a CIA officer linked to the planned Bay of Pigs invasion vows vengence after an ambush and disappears. The two plots converge at the 1961 summit in Vienna.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1992

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