=  Above & Beyond =
=== Casey Sherman & Michael J. Tougias . CENTRAL 973.922 s5531a 2018 ===
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Fascinating, as in spent too much time and deferred sleep reading ths

 . Histories leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis
 . U2 pilots and a little aircraft development
  . Gerald !McIlmoyle survived two SAMS
  . Rudy Anderson did not
 . A lot of Kennedy history, including PT109
  . Addison disease
  . Long meetings, mostly secret before scary TV speech
  . Bombers moved, invasion prepared
  . !LeMay and top brass pushed for invasion, mistakes could have triggered war
  . later, 1963 commencement speech at American University, "greatest speech since Roosevelt" said Khrushchev
 . Khrushchev backed down and withdrew to avoid WW3
  . Quid pro quo withdrawal of Redstone missiles in Turkey
   . Missile subs remained