Defensive, Not Aggressive
Andrew Cockburn: Khrushchev’s Cuban Gambit, 9 September 2021
The Silent Guns of Two Octobers: Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game
by Theodore Voorhees.
Michigan, 384 pp., £27.95, September,978 0 472 03871 8 Show More
by Theodore Voorhees.
Michigan, 384 pp., £27.95, September,
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Serhii Plokhy.
Allen Lane, 464 pp., £25, April,978 0 241 45473 2 Show More
by Serhii Plokhy.
Allen Lane, 464 pp., £25, April,
“... barely a mention of the influence that US domestic politics may have had on the course of events. Theodore Voorhees’s study is different. He highlights the all-important fact that in October 1962 John F. Kennedy was about to face congressional midterm elections. The results would determine the fate of his presidency, as well as his prospects for ... ”
