by Max Hastings · William Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780008365035
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Delve into the gripping story of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. Max Hastings narrates this event from the perspective of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots, and British disarmers. Through interviews, archive documents, and White House recordings, Hastings paints a portrait of the Cold War in Cuba, Russia, and America, describing the thirteen days that brought the world to the brink of Armageddon.
This book, considered by The Times as one of the history books of the year 2022, offers a crucial insight to understand current threats, especially in the context of the conflict in Ukraine, showing how the world survived its last glimpse into the abyss.
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings is a British journalist and military historian who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard. He is also the author of thirty books, most significantly histories, which have won several major awards. Hastings currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion and contributes to The Times and The Sunday Times.
