Why Ken loves this book
It was a brilliant reminder of how perilously close the world came to the catastrophe of a nuclear war in 1962, when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev installed nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba, directly threatening the paranoid minds of the USA. The book is brilliantly written, incredibly well researched, and an invaluable look at what went on behind the scenes of how close we came to a war, fought with nuclear weapons.
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A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph
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…