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THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS 1962

The new book from Max Hastings

The 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.


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MAX HASTINGS


Sir Max Hastings is an author, journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared in every British national newspaper.  He is now a columnist for The Times of London and for Bloomberg Inci and reviews regularly for the Sunday Times.  He has published thirty books, among the most recent of which are ABYSS: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (2022); OPERATION PEDESTAL: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 (2021); CHASTISE: The Dambusters Story 1943 (2019); VIETNAM An Epic History of a Tragic War (2018).

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