: Described by reviewers from The Daily Mail as reading like "the very best fiction" due to its gripping, hour-by-hour detail. Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962: Max Hastings
Hastings goes beyond traditional histories by examining the crisis from three distinct perspectives: Washington, Moscow, and Havana. He weaves together top-down political analysis with "ground-level" accounts from ordinary citizens, pilots, and soldiers who were caught in the crossfire. Abyss - Max Hastingsepub
In (also titled The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 ), bestselling historian Max Hastings provides a definitive, character-driven account of the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Book Overview : Described by reviewers from The Daily Mail