Laurence chang editor (8 risultati)

library. Condizione: VeryGood.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. New Press, The 1999 Fine/ Bright pages. HEAVY ITEM 2.0 Pounds. No Exp.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good+. Revised Edition. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear and there is a small, light crease to the top rear corner. The text pages are clean and bright. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis in Cuba (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) , or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in the United Kingdom, Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis lasted from 16 to 28 October 1962. The confrontation is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war. (from Wikipedia).…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Ships quickly. Mild to moderate shelf/reading wear. A FEW DOG EARED PAGES. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. revised subsequent edition. 429 pages. 10.25x8.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First Edition [stated]. xxvii, [1], 415, [3] p. Map. Notes. Reproduced Documents. Selected Glossary. Chronology of Events. Bibliography. Some pages are in a two column format. Foreword by Robert S. McNamara. On the 30th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, newly released documents reveal how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962 and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management. A valuable new resource for teachers, students, and millions of Americans who were never given the whole story. Employing newly released documents that reveal how close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962, this look at the Cuban Missile Crisis challenges the official history of the event as a model of crisis management. Peter Kornbluh (born 1956) is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive and the director of the Chile Documentation Project and the Cuba Documentation Project. Kornbluh's National Security Archive work included efforts related to the U.S. government's historical foreign policy. He has contributed to the declassification of documents that offer insight into U.S. government's support for the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Kornbluh has authored and co-authored several publications. One of his significant works is The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, which compiles a selection of declassified documents related to U.S. policy in Chile from 1970 to 1990. He also co-authored the book Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana with William LeoGrande. More than thirty years after the world stared down what Kennedy Administration officials described as "the gun barrel of nuclear war," we are still learning the secrets of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The National Security Archive's ground-breaking research and documentation of this near-nuclear confrontation is reflected in this book which combines formerly top secret presidential, Pentagon, and CIA documents, with contextual overviews, a comprehensive chronology of events, and biographies of the key U.S., Soviet, and Cuban players. The result is a document-by-document account of the most important superpower confrontation of the twentieth century. This collections of documents, which includes the recently declassified letters between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, minutes of executive committee meetings during the crisis, and CIA planning papers to overthrow Fidel Castro, provides the reader with a unique fly-on-the-wall view of the decision-making process and operations that brought the world to the brink of self-destruction. "The work of Chang and Kornbluh and their colleagues at the National Security Archive has helped to revolutionize not merely our conception of the event--which now appears more complex and dangerous than before--but also our conception of how to conduct rigorous, responsible inquiry into our recent history," writes James Blight, the nation's best known scholar on the missile crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, according to the Stanford Journal of International Affairs, "is a collection which students of the crisis, scholars of international relations, and even interested laymen should find fascinating and invaluable.".…

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.