One Minute to Midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Paperback)

from keylawk

In the single month of October 1962, Fidel Castro, Jack Kennedy, and Nikita Khrushchev nearly annihilated the world in a nuclear conflagration. The Ireland-born American Harvardian scholar-journalist, Michael Dobbs, limns the details and touches upon the background which led to the confrontation....

from delphica

I'm woefully ignorant of much of 20th century history, so occasionally I make tepid attempts to shore that up. This was a fairly comprehensive review of the Cuban Missile Crisis, following an hour by hour format that covered events in Washington DC, Moscow, and Cuba. As one would expect, there is...

from Stbalbach

One Minute to Midnight is an hour by hour reconstruction of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Dobbs has done original archival research and brings to the page new facts never before published. His main thesis is that there was no "eyeball to eyeball and the Soviets blinked", that was propaganda by the Ke...

from bezoar44

Narrative history of the Cuban missile crisis that focuses particularly intently on Saturday, October 27. The work reflects impressive historical research and presents new information on Soviet troop placements and the location of nuclear weapons in Cuba. More importantly for a general reader lik...

from traumleben

A well researched book that brings new light to a crisis that was mythologized in the immediate aftermath and in the decades following. It gives a very balanced view of events from the three main perspectives: American, Russian, and Cuban. With the addition of declassified US and Soviet records o...