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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy
5.0
Book 38 out of 200 books
"Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis" by Robert F. Kennedy
"Thirteen Days", as the title suggest, is the exploration and tense events from the 16th to the 28th of October, year 1962- the year when the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. Then Attorney-general, Robert Kennedy choose to write a memoir and declassify information regarding the crisis.
MY THOUGHTS:
So this was one intense read, a tragic one that is for sure. President Kennedy would eventually be assassinated the year after the Cuban Missile Crisis. This book still gave me shivers, a sense of dread because, now 2 decades into the 21st century, with over 15,000 nuclear weapons around, an all out nuclear war can occur in the future. 15k nuclear weapons is already more than enough to destroy our world, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what humanity's capable of doing to itself.
I learned a lot from reading this memoir, that war can be waged by even the poorest nations, when one man has the choices to wage it. Rage, fear and anger- those emotions showered me while reading this book. I don't exactly remember reading the speeches and last notes, but still- the Kennedy brothers commenced in a lot of great choices, gladly avoiding all-out nuclear war.
The sources, the people mentioned, I did basic research on who were they, Gromyko, Khrushchev, the Kennedy brothers, etc.
This 180-paged novel, I reading the 1980s or even the 1970s edition of this book so probably a lot of revision has been done to the present edition of this book, this book would serve as my own manual of political diplomacy and a type of book similar to Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations", because of how surprisingly calm was the prose of this book.
However, Robert Kennedy never had the chance to finish this memoir because he was assassinated. But nonetheless, this book was worth reading given the situation, as of June 2022, the world was shocked by Russia when the nation invaded Ukraine, and nuclear weapons are just probably a knock away from being detonated.
"Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis" by Robert F. Kennedy
"Thirteen Days", as the title suggest, is the exploration and tense events from the 16th to the 28th of October, year 1962- the year when the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. Then Attorney-general, Robert Kennedy choose to write a memoir and declassify information regarding the crisis.
MY THOUGHTS:
So this was one intense read, a tragic one that is for sure. President Kennedy would eventually be assassinated the year after the Cuban Missile Crisis. This book still gave me shivers, a sense of dread because, now 2 decades into the 21st century, with over 15,000 nuclear weapons around, an all out nuclear war can occur in the future. 15k nuclear weapons is already more than enough to destroy our world, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what humanity's capable of doing to itself.
I learned a lot from reading this memoir, that war can be waged by even the poorest nations, when one man has the choices to wage it. Rage, fear and anger- those emotions showered me while reading this book. I don't exactly remember reading the speeches and last notes, but still- the Kennedy brothers commenced in a lot of great choices, gladly avoiding all-out nuclear war.
The sources, the people mentioned, I did basic research on who were they, Gromyko, Khrushchev, the Kennedy brothers, etc.
This 180-paged novel, I reading the 1980s or even the 1970s edition of this book so probably a lot of revision has been done to the present edition of this book, this book would serve as my own manual of political diplomacy and a type of book similar to Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations", because of how surprisingly calm was the prose of this book.
However, Robert Kennedy never had the chance to finish this memoir because he was assassinated. But nonetheless, this book was worth reading given the situation, as of June 2022, the world was shocked by Russia when the nation invaded Ukraine, and nuclear weapons are just probably a knock away from being detonated.