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Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
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Hastings, Max.
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
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Abyss
: the
Cuban
Missile
Crisis
1962
/ Max Hastings.
by
Hastings, Max.
William Collins, 2022.
Call #:
973.922 H358a
Subjects
Cuban
Missile
Crisis
,
1962
.
ISBN:
9780008364991 (hc)
9780008365004 (pbk)
Alternate title:
Cuban
Missile
Crisis
1962
Description:
xxxvii, 538 p., 32 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some colour), maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-513) and index.
Summary:
"The
1962
Cuban
Missile
Crisis
was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the
abyss
of potential annihilation. Max Hastings’s graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers,
Cuban
peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev’s Russia and Kennedy’s America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned. Hastings began researching this book believing that he was exploring a past event from twentieth century history. He is as shocked as are millions of us around the world, to discover that the rape of Ukraine gives this narrative a hitherto unimaginable twenty-first century immediacy. We may be witnessing the onset of a new Cold War between nuclear-armed superpowers. To contend with today’s threat, which Hastings fears will prove enduring, it is critical to understand how, sixty years ago, the world survived its last glimpse into the
abyss
. Only by fearing the worst, he argues, can our leaders hope to secure the survival of the planet."--Publisher.
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