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Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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By (author): Max Hastings

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 Hastingss 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 Castros Cuba, Nikita Khrushchevs Russia and Kennedys 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.

To contend with todays threat, which Hastings fears will prove enduring, it is critical to understand how, sixty years ago, the world survived its last glimpse into the abyss. Only by fearing the worst, he argues, can our leaders hope to secure the survival of the planet.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 710g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Sep 2022
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008365004

About Max Hastings

Max Hastings is the author of thirty books most about conflict and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose Catastrophe and The Secret War bestsellers translated around the world. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature an Honorary Fellow of Kings College London and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children Charlotte and Harry and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire where they garden enthusiastically.

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