num_pages: 538
description: Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern historythe Cuban Missile Crisisproviding 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 centurythe 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 crisisAmerica 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 Hastings 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.
language: English
title: The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
publisher: Harper