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Nuclear Folly - A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
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Nuclear Folly - A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
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*Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History*
'An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . .
replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual
suspicion that brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of
Armageddon in October 1962' Martin Chilton, Independent The
definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author
of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, winner of the Baillie Gifford
Prize For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world
teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban
Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder,
famine and fallout; nuclear war between the two most-powerful
nations on Earth. In Nuclear Folly, award-winning historian Serhii
Plokhy tells the riveting story of those weeks, tracing the
tortuous decision-making and calculated brinkmanship of John F.
Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and of their advisors
and commanders on the ground. More often than not, Plokhy argues,
the Americans and Soviets simply misread each other, operating
under mutual distrust, second-guesses and false information.
Despite all of this, nuclear disaster was avoided thanks to one
very human reason: fear. Drawing on an impressive array of primary
sources, including recently declassified KGB files, Plokhy
masterfully illustrates the drama of those tense days.
Authoritative, fast-paced and unforgettable, this is the definitive
new account of the Cold War's most perilous moment.
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