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Studies in Intelligence eBook Series

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  • Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis

    Edited by James G. Blight, David A. Welch ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US, Soviet and Cuban Intelligence in the nuclear crisis of 1962 - the closest the world has come to Armageddon. ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

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  • Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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  • Abyss

    The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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