One Minute to Midnight - Kennedy, Krushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

Informationen zum Autor Michael Dobbs is a reporter for the Washington Post , who devoted much of his journalistic career to covering the collapse of communism. He was the Post 's bureau chief in Warsaw (1980-82), Paris (1983-86) and Moscow (1988-1993). He has held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton University and is the author of three books: Down with Big Brother (1996), Madeleine Albright (1999) and Saboteurs (2004). Down with Big Brother was a runner-up for the 1997 PEN award for non-fiction. Klappentext Michael Dobbs is a reporter for the Washington Post , who devoted much of his journalistic career to covering the collapse of communism. He was the Post 's bureau chief in Warsaw (1980-82), Paris (1983-86) and Moscow (1988-1993). He has held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton University and is the author of three books: Down with Big Brother (1996), Madeleine Albright (1999) and Saboteurs (2004). Down with Big Brother was a runner-up for the 1997 PEN award for non-fiction. Zusammenfassung October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. Dobbs's thrilling narrative features a cast of characters - including Soviet veterans never before interviewed by a western writer - with unique stories to tell, witnesses to one of the greatest mobilizations of men and equipment since the Second World War.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Dobbs, Dobbs Michael
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780099492450
• ISBN: 978-0-09-949245-0
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Arrow Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; USA, Russia, Cuba, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, c 1960 to c 1970, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Nuclear weapons, Biography: historical, political and military