Michael Dobbs

One Minute To Midnight

Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

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Produktbeschreibung

Ein Buch über die Kuba Krise und ein erschreckender Bericht darüber, wie kurz die Welt 1962 vor einem atomaren Krieg stand. Michael Dobbs recreates the 'most dangerous moment in human history' and brings the Cuban missile crisis to a new generation.

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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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arrow Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 545930
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 131mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780099492450
• ISBN-10: 0099492458
• Artikelnr.: 25400636

Autorenporträt

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.

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Mesmerising stuff ... a riveting hour-by-hour account of one day that could have changed the history of humanity Joanna Bourke The Times