The Cuban Missile Crisis

In The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History Second Edition Don Munton and David A. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the Cuban missile crisis into a brief and accessible narrative history. The authors draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes events consequences and significance. Stressing the importance of context in relation to the genesis conduct and resolution of the crisis Munton and Welch examine events from the U.S. Soviet and Cuban angles revealing the vital role that differences in national perspectives played at every stage. While the book provides a concise up-to-date look at this pivotal event it also notes gaps and mysteries in the historical record and highlights important persistent interpretive disputes. The authors provide a detailed guide to relevant literature and film for those who wish to explore further. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the crisis this revised and updated edition of The Cuban Missile Crisis is ideal for undergraduate courses on the 1960s U.S. foreign policy the Cold War twentieth-century world history and comparative foreign policy.