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One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Michael Dobbs
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Description for One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Paperback. October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. This book tells both the human and the political story of Black Saturday, taking the reader into the White House, the Kremlin and along the entire Cold War battlefront. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS; JWMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 113 x 31. Weight in Grams: 350.
October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. The Cuban missile crisis is at its height, and the world is drawing ever closer to nuclear apocalypse. As the opposing Cold War leaders, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, mobilize their forces to fight a nuclear war on land, sea and air, the world watches in terror. In Bobby Kennedy's words, 'There was a feeling that the noose was tightening on all of us, on Americans, on mankind, and that the bridges to escape were crumbling.' In One Minute to ... Read more
October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. The Cuban missile crisis is at its height, and the world is drawing ever closer to nuclear apocalypse. As the opposing Cold War leaders, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, mobilize their forces to fight a nuclear war on land, sea and air, the world watches in terror. In Bobby Kennedy's words, 'There was a feeling that the noose was tightening on all of us, on Americans, on mankind, and that the bridges to escape were crumbling.' In One Minute to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099492450
SKU
9780099492450
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Michael Dobbs
Michael Dobbs is a reporter for the Washington Post, who devoted much of his journalistic career to covering the collapse of communism. He was the Post's bureau chief in Warsaw (1980-82), Paris (1983-86) and Moscow (1988-1993). He has held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton University and is the author of three books: Down with Big Brother (1996), Madeleine Albright (1999) ... Read more
Reviews for One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Mesmerising stuff ... a riveting hour-by-hour account of one day that could have changed the history of humanity
Joanna Bourke
The Times
[Dobbs] has made extensive use of untapped archive material to reveal the secrets of the cloak-and-dagger operations behind the nuclear stand-off in the Caribbean... Excellent
John Crossland
Daily Mail
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Joanna Bourke
The Times
[Dobbs] has made extensive use of untapped archive material to reveal the secrets of the cloak-and-dagger operations behind the nuclear stand-off in the Caribbean... Excellent
John Crossland
Daily Mail
... Read more