Research Catalog

Title

Abyss : the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 / Max Hastings.

Author

Hastings, Max

Publication

London : William Collins, 2022.

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Details

Description

xxxvii, 538 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--Amazon.

Subject

• 1962
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-513) and index.

Contents

Prologue : Operation Zapata 17-19 April 1961 -- Cuba Libre -- Mother Russia -- Yanquis, Amerikantsy -- The red gambit: Operation Anadyr -- The shock -- Drumbeat -- 'They think we're slightly demented on this subject' -- The President speaks -- Blockade -- 'The other fellow just blinked' -- Khrushchev looks for an out -- Black Saturday -- The brink -- Endgame -- 'This strange and still scarcely explicable affair'

Call Number

JFE 22-4527

ISBN

• 9780008364991
• 0008364990
• 9780008365004
• 0008365008

OCLC

1338666328

Author

Hastings, Max, author.

Title

Abyss : the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 / Max Hastings.

Publisher

London : William Collins, 2022.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-513) and index.

Chronological Term

1962

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780008365011

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4527