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Abyss : the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 / by Max Hastings.

Abyss : the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 / by Max Hastings.
Abyss :
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.

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972.91/HAS
Adult Non-Fiction   Port Macquarie . Available .  
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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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