false 2606779 5 October 27, 1962, was known as Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. With the Cuban missile crisis at its height, this was a day of nail-biting developments, when the hands of the metaphorical Doomsday Clock reached one minute to midnight and the world grew closer than ever before (or since) to nuclear apocalypse. On Black Saturday, the opposing Cold War leaders, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, mobilized their forces to fight a nuclear war on land, sea and air. The watching world held its breath in terror. In Bobby Kennedy's words, 'There was a feeling that the noose was tightening on all of us, on Americans, on mankind, and that the bridges to escape were crumbling.'Michael Dobbs tells both the human and the political story of Black Saturday, taking the reader not just into the White House and the Kremlin but along the entire Cold War battlefront with the men who were preparing to fight. We see inside U-2s and nuclear submarines; the armies gathering in Florida and Cuba; American warships and Cuban anti-aircraft batteries; the CIA, the NSA and the KGB; Cold War radio stations and listening posts; the feverish conspiracies of Cuban exiles; Castro's headquarters; Khrushchev's dacha; the underground bunker being prepared for Kennedy; the streets of Washington, Moscow and Havana.Using a wealth of untapped archival material, Michael Dobbs brings a fresh perspective to this crucial moment in twentieth-century history, which witnessed one of the greatest mobilizations of men and equipment since the Second World War. His thrilling narrative features a cast of characters - including Soviet veterans never before interviewed by a western writer - that ranges from the ordinary to the larger than life, all with unique stories to tell. 2391894 5 2 2008 One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Krushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War total:131|5:39|4:58|3:31|2:2|1:1| 131 525 302 39 3 1 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 11:00:38 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 11:00:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 true false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 23:28:38 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 00:48:50 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:59:02 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:59:02 -0800 2009 In this acclaimed history, Dobbs goes beyond a tale of high-level pressure and emergency phone calls and throws in tales of crisis at the lowest levels, making Tom Clancy look tame in comparison. Critics loved the new details on the U2 pilots, the attach‚ŕö¬©s to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the m...

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