Thirteen Days: A Memoir Of The Cuban Missile Crisis.

KENNEDY, Robert F.; Introductions By Robert S. McNamara and Harold Macmillan.

Item Number: 4277

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1969.

First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by Robert S. MacNamera on the title page, who served in the Kennedy cabinet as Secretary of Defense during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

"The world was faced with... the greatest danger of a catastrophic war.... The performance of the U.S. government during that critical period was more effective than any other time during my seven year period as secretary of defense. The agencies of the government...worked together smoothly and harmoniously. That they did so was a large part of the efforts of robert Kennedy" (Robert MacNamara).