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Title: Trumbull Higgins papers
Dates: 1943-1990
Collection Number: 96036
Creator: Higgins, Trumbull.
Collection Size:
9 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, and photographs, relating to twentieth-century military history, and especially to aspects of World
War II, the Indochinese War, and the Cuban missile crisis. Includes drafts of a book-length study entitled "Pluto and Vulture:
A Comparison between John F. Kennedy at the Bay of Pigs and Dwight D. Eisenhower at Dienbienphu," and drafts of the books
Soft Underbelly: The Anglo-American Controversy over the Italian Campaign, 1939-1945 (New York, 1968) and The Perfect Failure:
Kennedy, Eisenhower and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs (New York, 1987).
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Trumbull Higgins papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1996.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
American historian.
Scope and Content of Collection
Writings, correspondence, and photographs, relating to twentieth-century military history, and especially to aspects of World
War II, the Indochinese War, and the Cuban missile crisis. Includes drafts of a book-length study entitled "Pluto and Vulture:
A Comparison between John F. Kennedy at the Bay of Pigs and Dwight D. Eisenhower at Dienbienphu," and drafts of the books
Soft Underbelly: The Anglo-American Controversy over the Italian Campaign, 1939-1945 (New York, 1968) and The Perfect Failure:
Kennedy, Eisenhower and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs (New York, 1987).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Military history.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
World War, 1939-1945.
Indochinese War, 1946-1954.
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
United States--Armed Forces.