Cuban Missile Crisis

Priscilla Roberts, PhD, is associate professor of history and honorary director of the Centre of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong.

• List of Entries,Introduction,Entries,Primary Documents,1. President John F. Kennedy, Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba, October 22, 1962,2. Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges during the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22–28, 1962,3. Meeting between U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, October 27, 1962,4. Meeting between U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, October 28, 1962,5. Chairman Nikita Khrushchev to President John F. Kennedy, Moscow, October 28, 1962,6. Meeting between U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, October 30, 1962,7. Letters between Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, October 26–31, 1962,Chronology,Bibliography,About the Editor and Contributors,Index,

[A] well-written dictionary of key players and events surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. . . . This is a concise, easy-to-read reference for high-school and public libraries and beginning undergraduates. Summing Up: Recommended.