Michael Dobbs

Broschiertes Buch

One Minute To Midnight

Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

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

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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