One Minute to Midnight
Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Ranked #3 in Cuban, Ranked #10 in The Cold War — see more rankings.
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we really did come to Armageddon.
Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of... more
Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of... more
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