About this history book
One minute to midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war by Michael Dobbs, Michael Dobbs (historian) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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 came to Armageddon.Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo; the accidental overflight of the Soviet Union by an American spy plane; the movement of Soviet nuclear warheads around Cuba during the tensest days of the crisis; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board. Dobbs takes us inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev--rational, intelligent men separated by an ocean of ideological suspicion--agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nucl
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- Author
- Michael Dobbs, Michael Dobbs (historian)
- Publisher
- Knopf Publishing Group
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400078912
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (187 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13