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  • Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis

    Redigeret af James G. Blight, David A. Welch ...
    Serier serie Studies in Intelligence
    This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US, Soviet and Cuban Intelligence in the nuclear crisis of 1962 - the closest the world has come to Armageddon. ... Læs mere

    568,53 kr.

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  • Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    "A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. ... Læs mere

    107,24 kr.

  • Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy

    Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935–1961

    **A New York Times–bestseller from an intelligence insider reveals the "fascinating new research" revealing Hemingway's hidden life in espionage ( New York Review of Books).A riveting epic, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy reveals for the first time Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures in espionage and intelligence.While he was the historian at the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, former American ... Læs mere

    129,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • One Minute To Midnight

    Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

    af Michael Dobbs ...
    October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. The Cuban missile crisis is at its height, and the world is drawing ever closer to nuclear apocalypse.As the opposing Cold War leaders, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, mobilize their forces to fight a nuclear war on land, sea and air, the world watches in terror. In Bobby Kennedy's words, 'There was a feeling that the ... Læs mere

    102,91 kr.

  • Abyss

    The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

    af Max Hastings ...
    A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily TelegraphThe 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.Max Hastings ... Læs mere

    104,39 kr.

  • The Doomsday Machine

    Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

    Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-FictionFrom the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, the first insider exposé of the awful dangers of America's hidden, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that is chillingly still extantAt the same time former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the top-secret Pentagon Papers, he also took with ... Læs mere

    119,40 kr.

  • Kennedy's Wars

    Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam

    In his thousand-day presidency, John F. Kennedy led America through one of its most difficult and potentially explosive eras. With the Cold War at its height and the threat of communist advances in Europe and the Third World, Kennedy had the unenviable task of maintaining U.S. solidarity without leading the western world into a nuclear catastrophe. In Kennedy's Wars, noted historian Lawrence ... Læs mere

    267,17 kr.

  • The Crisis Years

    Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

    The groundbreaking and revelatory tale of the most dangerous years of the Cold War and the two leaders who held the fate of the world in their hands.This bestselling history takes us into the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin Wall was built and the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union to the abyss. In this compelling ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Gambling with Armageddon

    Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War—how such a crisis arose, and why at the very last possible moment it didn't happen.In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting ... Læs mere

    112,99 kr.

  • Nuclear Folly

    A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    af Serhii Plokhy ...
    **"The definitive history.…With his masterly book, Mr. Plokhy has sounded a warning bell." — The EconomistA harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse.**Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear ... Læs mere

    139,74 kr.

  • High Noon in the Cold War

    Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

    af Max Frankel ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “[A] riveting retrospective examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis” (The Washington Times), from one of the giants of American journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Max FrankelFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryIn High Noon in the Cold War, Max Frankel captures the Cuban Missile Crisis in a new light, from inside the hearts and minds of the famous ... Læs mere

    58,48 kr.

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory

    Myths versus Reality

    Serier serie Stanford Nuclear Age Series
    "Marshals irrefutable evidence to succinctly demolish the mythic version of the crisis . . . sober analysis." — The AtlanticThis book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations.More than a half-century ... Læs mere

    125,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus