Abyss
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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 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. To contend with
today's 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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Max Hastings ,
William Collins
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