Serhii Plokhy is Professor of History at Harvard University and a leading authority on the Cold War and nuclear history. His books include the Baillie Gifford award-winner Chernobyl- History of a Tragedy, Nuclear Folly, The Gates of Europe and The Last Empire.
An immense achievement, engrossing and terrifying, surely one of
the most important books ever written about the Cuban Missile
Crisis and 20th-century international relations
*Wall Street Journal*
The story is extraordinary and Plokhy is an accomplished narrator .
. . it's as authoritative a version of the Soviet side as we are
likely to ever get
*The Sunday Times*
An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . .
replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual
suspicion that brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of
Armageddon in October 1962
*Independent*
A definitive new account of the Cuban Missile Crisis . . .
masterly
*The Economist*
With access to recently declassified KGB material, this is the most
detailed and dependable account of the crisis. It will be gladly
plundered by students and scholars and highlighted until its pages
are damp with neon yellow
*The Times*
A dramatic story, compellingly told
*BBC History Revealed*
A magisterial work based on a bevy of U.S. and Soviet archival
sources, including previously classified KGB documents. The
perspective Plokhy provides exposes the perverse incentives that
fueled dangerous nuclear power plays during the Cold War and, he
suggests, beyond
*New Republic*
A gripping narrative about the most dangerous Cold War crisis . . .
Plokhy brings this turning point to spine-chilling life - it reads
like a thriller
*Tablet*
Nearly sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Serhi Plokhy,
the author of multiple groundbreaking books on Soviet history, once
again uses newly released KGB archives to offer a new perspective.
In gripping, granular detail, he shows us just how close the U.S.
and the Soviet Union came to Armageddon
*Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy*
A fresh examination of the historical milestone. . . . Plokhy keeps
the pages turning, and he includes far more Soviet material than
earlier scholars. . . . superbly researched and uncomfortably
timely
*Kirkus*
This important, absorbing work shows that the full story of the
Cuban Missile Crisis must be told from its global perspective
*Library Journal*
Plokhy dives deep. . . . History buffs will savor this balanced and
richly detailed look at both sides of the crisis
*Publishers Weekly*
If you think the story of the Cuban missile crisis has been told so
often that nothing remains to be learned, think again. Drawing on
KGB documents preserved in Ukrainian archives and Soviet military
memoirs, as well as American documents and Cuban materials, Serhii
Plokhy's almost hour-by-hour account freshly illuminates mistakes
by the Kremlin and the White House that triggered the crisis, and
snafus at sea and in Cuba that almost sparked a nuclear war
*William Taubman, author of Gorbachev*
An excellent overview of the Cuban missile crisis from one of
America's leading Cold War historians. Serhii Plokhy has mined
previously untapped Soviet archives to shed new light on the
thirteen days that brought the world closer than ever before to
nuclear destruction, and the pivotal roles of John F. Kennedy and
Nikita Khrushchev. A thrilling read that justifies his sobering
conclusion: we may not be so lucky next time
*Michael Dobbs, author of One Minute to Midnight*
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