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One Minute to Midnight (Paperback)

By: Michael Dobbs (Author)

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"A nuanced account of the events of October 1962...."

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Thoroughly researched and with the pacing of a thriller, One Minute to Midnight is the definitive account of history's most dangerous hours.
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. Here, for the first time, we learn of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board. In this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran "Washington Post "reporter Michael Dobbs has produced the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis.

An eye-opening study of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis offers an hour-by-hour chronicle of the tense standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over the placement of missiles in Cuba, offering an in-depth analysis of the events and personalities involved that reveals how close the world actually came to all-out nuclear war. Reprint.

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In this fresh account of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis--perhaps the defining moment of the Kennedy presidency--Michael Dobbs draws on documents from Cuban, Russian, and American archives as he recounts the minute-by-minute behind-the-scenes-drama in the White House and at the Kremlin. Dobbs reveals just how far apart the two sides were in their understanding of each other, and just how close the world came to the nuclear precipice.

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