Berlin 1961 : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth / Frederick Kempe.
Berlin 1961 : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth / Frederick Kempe.
Berlin 1961 : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth / Frederick Kempe.
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New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2011.
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N943.15508/10
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English
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xxv, 579 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1 : The players. Khrushchev : communist in a hurry ; Marta Hillers's story of rape ; Khrushchev : the Berlin crisis unfolds ; Kennedy : a president's education ; The "sniper" comes in from the cold ; Kennedy : a first mistake ; Ulbricht and Adenauer : unruly alliances ; The failed flight of Frie...
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New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2011.
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New York (State)
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c2011.
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Based on a new documents and interviews, this work is a look at the Berlin Crisis of 1961, with powerful applications for the present. In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called it "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 wa...
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Berlin 1961 : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth / Frederick Kempe.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [553]-563) and index.
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c2011.
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N943.15508/10
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74Vvmp8LGOAg
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0399157298
9780399157295
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943.1550875
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991006427799702626
