cuban missile crisis, 1962

Collects twenty essays that provide historical background on the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, provide varying perspectives on controversies surrounding the conflict, and offer personal accounts.

Contains a selection of primary and secondary source articles that provide insight into the origins, conduct, and outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

Examines the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a brief period in the fall of 1962 during which the United States came very close to engaging in nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

Despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends, living in England in 1962, still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.