Cuban Missile Crisis

[AnarchJim]

Hey all.

I need some help. I've read about the Cuban Missile Crisis but I now need to set up a time line with veried sources, different from those I've been given. I was hoping someone could give me some sources that I can get some reliable information from.

Cheers all.

[Mariam]

Time line (http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis/timeline.htm)

[Comrade Phil]

Originally posted by [email protected] 01, 2007 08:52 am
Hey all.

I need some help. I've read about the Cuban Missile Crisis but I now need to set up a time line with veried sources, different from those I've been given. I was hoping someone could give me some sources that I can get some reliable information from.

Cheers all.
You might have some problems with having so-called biased sources (i did), but this set of MIA articles is excellent.

http://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/subje...risis/index.htm (http://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/subject/missile-crisis/index.htm)

[AnarchJim]

You might have some problems with having so-called biased sources...

Too be honest I would like a left sided bias, I'm under quite a overly powered Capitalist System that hes left no room for either the Far right (not that I would want them to) or left to really speak out, our two lead parties that you hear about are both Capitalist, it's just voting for one in the middle of Capitalism and one closer to Nationalism.

So my schooling system is like my county, Capitalist, and though my teacher invites more opinions other then the same old Wikapedia and shit that all other students use once searching in Google, which as is easily seen as being more to a capitalist bias, I like to retaliate to this with a leftsided point of view so hopefully I and the rest of my class can sort through the differences and similarities to find a strange truth.

I know unbias sources are the best, and the hardest to come by, but to say something that agrees with them on some respects would not have much of an impact to other members of my class as one that opposes everything they have just said (not that I'm saying it has to be an arguement or similar, just civil dispute). It opens their eyes more.

Edit: Thank you alot though (forgot to add that to the end, I carry on abit as you can tell)

[Severian]

One good book is "October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba" by Tomás Diez Acosta. An excerpt on the lead-up to the crisis is here. (http://www.themilitant.com/2002/6637/663750.html)

[Colonello Buendia]

read companero (a biography of che guevara) it mentions in some detail the part he played in the crisis, meetings with the russians ect.