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Cuba and the missile crisis / Carlos Lechuga ; translated by Mary Todd.

By:

Lechuga Hevia, Carlos [author]

Contributor(s):

Todd, Mary [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: Melbourne, Australia ; New York, NY : Ocean Press, c2001.Description: 174 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

1876175346
9781876175344

Other title:

Cuba and the missile crisis : The dramatic inside story by Carlos Lechuga, Cuba's UN ambassador [Cover title]

Uniform titles:

En el ojo de la tormenta. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.922 21

LOC classification:

E 841 .L3513 2001

Online resources:

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Contents:

1. The beginnings -- 2. Missiles and threats -- 3. The missile gap and discovery -- 4. The letters -- 5. A misunderstanding -- 6. U Thant in Havana -- 7. Cuba and the negotiations -- 8. No inspections -- 9. Aggression and détente -- 10. The unknown.

Summary: "In 1962, the tiny island nation of Cuba became the flash point in the confrontation between the two world superpowers. For the first time, Cuba's view of the most serious crisis of the Cold War is told by one of the leading participants. Rushed to New York during the crisis to take up the post of Cuba's ambassador to the United Nations, Carlos Lechuga provides the Cuban version of what really occurred when the world was on the edge of a nuclear catastrophe. Cuba and the Missile Crisis features several key components of looking into this time. This includes secret letters exchanged between Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro, the role of the United Nations and the meeting of U Thant with Fidel Castro, and testimony of Fidel Castro, the only surviving protagonist. No longer silenced by its ties to the Soviet Union, Cuba now voices its sense of betrayal in the Khrushchev-Kennedy deal. In a fascinating postscript to the Missile Crisis story, Lechuga describes a secret approach from Washington for a dialogue with Havana immediately prior to the assassination of President Kennedy." -- From back of book.Summary: "A fascinating insight into one of the most serious episodes of the Cold War written by a key protagonist, Cuba’s ambassador to the UN Carlos Lechuga, who for the first time reveals Kennedy’s overtures for a dialogue with Castro." -- From online.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks	The Karen Lee Wald Collection	E 841 .L3513 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		NPML21100015

An earlier version of this book was published in 1995 under the title "In the Eye of the Storm --Castro, Khrushchev, Kennedy and the Missile Crisis".

"In 1962, the tiny island nation of Cuba became the flash point in the confrontation between the two world superpowers. For the first time, Cuba's view of the most serious crisis of the Cold War is told by one of the leading participants. Rushed to New York during the crisis to take up the post of Cuba's ambassador to the United Nations, Carlos Lechuga provides the Cuban version of what really occurred when the world was on the edge of a nuclear catastrophe. Cuba and the Missile Crisis features several key components of looking into this time. This includes secret letters exchanged between Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro, the role of the United Nations and the meeting of U Thant with Fidel Castro, and testimony of Fidel Castro, the only surviving protagonist. No longer silenced by its ties to the Soviet Union, Cuba now voices its sense of betrayal in the Khrushchev-Kennedy deal. In a fascinating postscript to the Missile Crisis story, Lechuga describes a secret approach from Washington for a dialogue with Havana immediately prior to the assassination of President Kennedy." -- From back of book.

"A fascinating insight into one of the most serious episodes of the Cold War written by a key protagonist, Cuba’s ambassador to the UN Carlos Lechuga, who for the first time reveals Kennedy’s overtures for a dialogue with Castro." -- From online.