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One Minute to Midnight

Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

Michael Dobbs

Cuba's secret Soviet missile installation almost sparked a nuclear war with the US in 1962. Written like a thriller, One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs is an hour-by-hour account of those tense days that accepts we were close to Armageddon. The book features gripping accounts of Khrushchev's failed plan to destroy the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, how Soviet nuclear warheads were handled on Cuba and an extraordinary story of a U-2 spy plane. One Minute to Midnight is an exhaustively researched account of what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called “the most dangerous moment in human history,” and the definitive book on the Cuban missile crisis.
Fecha de publicación
2008-02-01T00:00:00.000Z
2008-02-01T00:00:00.000Z
Calificación de Goodreads
4.24
ISBN
9781400078912
Recomendaciones
1
Recomendaciones
2022-03-06T18:51:21.000Z
I read all Michael Dobbs' books but "One Minute to Midnight" is chilling, as is Lawrence Wright's "Thirteen Days in September." Catherine Belton's excellent "Putin's People" is a must to understand Putin. Also, Toby Harnden's recent "First Casualty" is good on early Afghan. 5/      fuente