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      Max Hastings
      Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

      2023 | Nakladatelství HarperCollins Publishers UK

      A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph 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. Max Hastings's graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro's Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev's Russia and Kennedy's America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned. Hastings began researching this book believing that he was exploring a past event from twentieth century history. He is as shocked as are millions of us around the world, to discover that the rape of Ukraine gives this narrative a hitherto unimaginable twenty-first century immediacy. We may be witnessing the onset of a new Cold War between nuclear-armed superpowers. To contend with today's threat, which Hastings fears will prove enduring, it is critical to understand how, sixty years ago, the world survived its last glimpse into the abyss. Only by fearing the worst, he argues, can our leaders hope to secure the survival of the planet. A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1…962 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. Max Hastings's graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro's Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev's Russia and Kennedy's America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned. Hastings began researching this book believing that he was exploring a past event from twentieth century history. He is as shocked as are millions of us around the world, to discover that the rape of Ukraine gives this narrative a hitherto unimaginable twenty-first century immediacy. We may be witnessing the onset of a new Cold War between nuclear-armed superpowers. To contend with today's threat, which Hastings fears will prove enduring, it is critical to understand how, sixty years ago, the world survived its last glimpse into the abyss. Only by fearing the worst, he argues, can our leaders hope to secure the survival of the planet.

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      Stav:
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      Vazba: Brožovaná
      Počet stran: 538
      Jazyk:  anglicky
      ISBN10: 0008365032
      ISBN: 9780008365035
      Vydání: 1
      Vystaveno: 4. 8. 2025 18:32
      Číslo položky: 1330651

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      Max Hastings

      Max Hastings

      Max Hastings studoval na elitním londýnském gymnáziu Charterhouse a na oxfordské University College. Jako válečná korespondent BBC a Timesů se zúčastnil téměř všech ozbrojených konfliktů od konce druhé světové války. V letech 1986-1995 řídil list Daily Telegraph a do roku 2002 pracoval jako redaktor londýnského večerníku Evening Standard. Za 24 knih na vojenskohistorická témata získal četná ocenění, například Cenu Somerseta Maughama za literaturu faktu, Medaili Pritzkerovy knihovny za popularizaci historie vojenství či Westminsterskou medaili Royal United Services Institute , Armageddon: Bitva o německo 1944-1945 a Velitelství bombardovacího letectva . Za své zásluhy byl Max Hastings v roce 2002 povýšen do šlechtického stavu.

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