Nuclear folly : a new history of the Cuban missile crisis
Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-2022
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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. Drawing on an impressive array of primary sources, including recently declassified KGB files, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama of those tense days.
Main title:
Nuclear folly : a new history of the Cuban missile crisis / Serhii Plokhy.
Author:
Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2022.
Collation:
442 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141993287 (pbk)
Dewey class:
973.922973.922 PLOR973.922
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3312860