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The Cuba-Caribbean Missile Crisis of October 1962 (Guides to Historical Issues, #6)

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The Cuban-Caribbean Missile Crisis of October 1962, so designated by Soviet and Cuban officials and sholars, brought the United States and the Soviet Union to brink of nuclear war. This timely study provides students of international affairs an oportunity to examine in detail the decision-making process which first caused, and later enabled the two powers to resolve the crisis.

Between 1989 and 1994 six conferences have been held featuring U.S., Soviet and Cuban participants in the crisis as well as scholars seeking to clarify the event. declassified documents fom these three nations, as well as memoirs and interviews, have provided additional information regarding the period before, during and after that event. Not unexpectantly, the new material has raised controversy as well as providing enlightenment.

Of particular value to librarians and researchers is the extensive bibliography of the essential literture which Brune has appended to his study. - from book's back cover