Thirteen days; a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis. With introductions by Robert S. McNamara and Harold Macmillan.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, W. W. Norton [1969]Edition: [1st ed.]Description: 224 p. illus., facsim. (on lining papers), ports. 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 327.73/047
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"Documents": p. 163-218.
WAR, NEWBERY,
Introduction / Robert S. McNamara -- Introduction / Harold Macmillan -- Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962 -- The President ... knew he would have to act -- A majority decision ... for a blockade -- It was not up to one single man -- The important meeting of the OAS ... -- I met with Dobrynin ... -- The danger was anything but over -- There were almost daily communications with Krushchev -- Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion -- This could mean war -- Those hours in the Cabinet Room ... -- The President ordered the Ex Comm ... -- Some of the things we learned ... -- The importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes.