One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
by Michael Dobbs
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Author: Michael DobbsEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: 1400043581
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Knopf
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Summary: 5 Stars
I can't add much to the praise heaped upon this book by other reviewers. Needless to say that it makes many of the other histories look like the "Cliff" notes versions. I had the privilege to serve on one of the ships involved in the blockade, two years after the event. Many of the "old salts" on board enlightened me on the events. Michael Dodd's book reads like a contemporary thriller. The world truly hung in the balance, and Dodd's paints a fast-moving, yet poignant picture of the events and the two men (Kennedy and Khrushchev) who ultimately chose the path of reason and sanity.
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