When angels wept : a what-if history of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Title:
When angels wept : a what-if history of the Cuban Missile Crisis
JLCTITLE245:
Eric G. Swedin.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 307 pages) : maps
ISBN:
9781597975650
General Note:
Maps on lining papers.
Local Note:
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre:
Contents:
Introduction -- Prologue: the Pay of Pigs invasion -- Making tools : mushroom clouds and dreams of space -- Survivor : Nikita Krushchev -- Young man of ambition : John F. Kennedy -- Operation Anadyr : the plan to protect Cuba -- The U-2 flight that never happened : the crisis begins -- Helter Skelter : the world teeters on the edge of sanity -- Desperation : the spark -- Angels weep : the fire comes -- In the ruins : learning to survive.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.