Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Kennedy, Robert F, Jr., and McNamara, Robert S (Introduction by), and Macmillan, Harold (Introduction by) - 1969

New York.: Signet Book / New American Library., 1969. 8th Signet printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Tight, unmarked. Light cover soiling. Short front lower corner crease.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. 192p. Glued binding. 32 B&W photo pages. End papers: facsimile RFK handwritten draft pages. Audience: General/trade. US History: Eyewitness account by President John F Kennedy's brother, his Attorney General. Dramatized by ABC Theatre as "The Missiles of October". The prospect of aggression with missiles from Cuba fired on the U.S. brought accelerating tension in a short period, and a diplomatic challenge threatening nuclear war. A U.S. U-2 pilot had been shot down. Unabridged; includes speeches and letters, a note by Theodore Sorensen, and the anguished exchanges between JFK and the USSR's Nikita Khruschev. Contributors McNamara and Macmillan were then, respectively, JFK's Secretary of Defense and the former British Prime Minister.