A Times History Book of the Year 2022From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ¿the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis¿ Daily TelegraphThe 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.Max Hastings¿s graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro¿s Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev¿s Russia and Kennedy¿s America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned.Hastings began researching this book believing that he was exploring a past event from twenti
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The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war.In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's...
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A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings.<br/><br/><br/>Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's...
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<p><i><b>Second star to the right and straight on to mourning...</b></i><br><b>A fairy tale retelling like no other from the imagination of Jessa Hastings.</b><br><br><b>*</b><br><b><br><i>Never...
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