Record Number |
679882 |
ISBN |
9780008365004 |
9780008364991 |
0008365008 |
Author |
Hastings, Max |
Title |
Abyss : the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 / by Max Hastings. |
Portion of title |
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 |
Cuban Missile Crisis nineteen sixty-two |
Publication details |
London : William Collins, 2022. |
Pagination etc. |
xxxvii, 538 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm. |
Summary Note |
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. |
Subject |
Kennedy, John F. -- (John Fitzgerald), -- 1917-1963. |
Castro, Fidel, -- 1926-2016 |
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, -- 1894-1971 |
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 |
Cold War |
Nuclear crisis control |
History |
United States -- Foreign relations |
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations |
Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990 |
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