EAN: 9780062980137

THE ABYSS - MAX HASTINGS GEBUNDEN

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and
tense international events in modern history-the Cuban Missile Crisis-providing a
people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians  Cubans  Americans
and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded. In The Abyss  Max Hastings
turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century-the thirteen
days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the
conflict with fresh eyes  focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis-America President
John F. Kennedy  Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev  Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro 
and a host of their advisors. Combining in-depth research with Hasting's well-honed insights 
The Abyss is a human history that unfolds on a wide  colorful canvas. As the action moves back
and forth from Moscow to Washington  DC  to Havana  Hastings seeks to explain  as much as to
describe  the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets  Cubans  and Americans  and to recreate the
tension and heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance.
Reflecting on the outcome of these events  he reveals how the aftermath of this momentous
crisis continues to reverberate today. Powerful  and riveting  filled with compelling detail
and told with narrative flair  The Abyss is history at its finest.

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