One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War-Fast Shipping

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In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the SovietUnion came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missilesin Cuba. In this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon.

Here, for thefirst time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev’s plan to destroy the U.S. navalbase at Guantánamo; the handling of Soviet nuclear warheads on Cuba; and the extraordinarystory of a U-2 spy plane that got lost over Russia at the peak of the crisis.

Writtenlike a thriller, One Minute to Midnight is an exhaustively researched account ofwhat Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called “the most dangerous moment in human history,”and the definitive book on the Cuban missile crisis.