Nuclear folly : a new history of the Cuban missile crisis
Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-2022
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Total copies: 3
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:
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2022.
Collation:
464 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141993287 (pbk)0141993286 (pbk)
Dewey class:
973.922 PLO973.922
LC class:
E841
Language:
English
Subject:
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962Cold WarHistoryHistoryUSSR, Soviet UnionUnited States of America, USACubac 1960 to c 1969History of the AmericasUnited States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet UnionUnited States -- Foreign relations -- CubaSoviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United StatesCuba -- Foreign relations -- United States
BRN:
397927