Library Guides: Cuban Missile Crisis: Books

LC Subject Headings

Many books on the topic will be under the following subject headings or their narrower terms. Information of the Cuban Missile Crisis may be found in some books that cover JFK or the past Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Sample Books in the Main Collection

The Cuban missile crisis.

Author: Abram Chayes

Published: 1974

ISBN: 0198253206

Call number: E841 .C48

On the brink : Americans and Soviets reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis

Author: James G. Blight & David A. Welch with foreword by McGeorge Bundy

Published: 1989

ISBN: 03774226342

Call number: E841 .B57 1989

The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 : needless or necessary

Author: William J. Medland

Published: 1988

ISBN: 0275928446

Call number: E841 .M43 1988

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Sample Books in the Main Collection (cont.)

Reflections on the Cuban missile crisis

Author: Raymond L. Garthoff

Published: 1987

ISBN: 0815730527

Call number: E841 .G37 1987

The missile crisis of October 1962 : a review of issues and references

Author: Lester H. Brune

Published: 1985

ISBN: 0941690164

Call number: E841 .B78 1985

Essence of decision ; explaining the Cuban missile crisis

Author: Graham T. Allison

Published: 1971

Call number: E183.8.R9 A64