Britain on the brink
Subtitle: the Cold War's most dangerous weekend, 27-28 October 1962
By: Jim Wilson
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Barnsley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781848848146
Subjects: World politics; Military History; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Nuclear crisis control; Military relations; History
Description: At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Britain was America's first-line defence, a vulnerable, but unsinkable 'aircraft carrier' on which the United States based elements of their nuclear deterrent. But the British public was unaware that, as tensions rose thousands of miles away, the UK itself was under imminent threat of armageddon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-193) and index.