The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963From one of our nation's foremost historians, an important and immensely readable book that tells in dramatic detail the story of the most dangerous years of the Cold War and reveals the relationship between world leaders Kennedy and Khrushchev. Based on thousands of pages of new declassified government documents and Soviet sources that were previously closed, Beschloss's work reveals the mistakes, betrayals and covert operations that made these "the crisis years". 32 pages of halftones. |
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Almost Midnight | 1 |
Hes Younger Than My Own Son | 13 |
Our Clue to the Soviet Union | 38 |
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