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In October 1962, Washington pushed the world to the edge of nuclear war. Here, for the first time, the full story of that historic moment is told from the perspective of the Cuban people, whose determination to defend their sovereignty and their socialist revolution blocked US plans for a military assault and saved humanity from the consequences of a nuclear holocaust.
“Diez Acosta shows two Cuban forces at work: intense patriotism against the bullying northern enemy and sincere belief that the communist economic system was a revolutionary cause of great merit. Cubans were willing to die in battle for both reasons.” —Hispanic American Historical Review
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Tomás Diez Acosta (1946–2023) served as political instructor in Military Unit 2562 during the 1962 October Missile Crisis. From 1970 to 1986 he taught history at the General Máximo Gómez Academy of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and other military schools. He retired from active military service in 1998 as lieutenant colonel.
Diez is the author of October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba (2002)
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