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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile by Serhii Plokhy. Like New 1st ed
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Come Nuovo
- Note del venditore
- “a minor stain / tear due to shelf storage. See pic”
- Pages
- 464
- Publication Date
- 2021-04-13
- ISBN
- 9780393540819
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393540812
ISBN-13
9780393540819
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15050072738
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nuclear Folly : a History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Nuclear Warfare, United States / 20th Century, International Relations / Arms Control, United States / General
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-033221
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
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, while drawing ominous lessons for our own once-again hair-trigger nuclear age., Plokhy dives deep.... History buffs will savor this balanced and richly detailed look at both sides of the crisis., 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., Nearly sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Serhii 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. At a moment when nuclear technology is still spreading, Nuclear Folly reminds us of the danger we all still face., [Plokhy]provides fresh and horrifying new details.... Finishing this soberingaccount, I could not help but think of the dangers that exist today fromnuclear standoffs involving Pakistan, India, China, North Korea and the UnitedStates., If you think 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, while drawing ominous lessons for our own once-again hair-trigger nuclear age., Arguably the mostauthoritative and cleverly written work on the subject yet produced. Packedwith fresh information from newly declassified Russian sources, including a KGBarchive no researcher has previously accessed.... Gripping., Nearly sixty years after the Cuban missile crisis, Serhii 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 United States and the Soviet Union came to Armageddon. At a moment when nuclear technology is still spreading, Nuclear Folly reminds us of the danger we all still face., A magisterial workbased on a bevy of U.S. and Soviet archival sources, including previouslyclassified KGB documents. The perspective Plokhy provides exposes the perverseincentives that fueled dangerous nuclear power plays during the Cold War and,he suggests, beyond., 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, while drawing ominous lessons for our own once again hair-trigger nuclear age., Riveting.... [An] excellent re-creation of events.... A timely reminder of a danger we must still live with today., What makes this thedefinitive history is Mr Plokhy's telling of the tale in gripping detail fromthe Soviet perspective.... It is the picture Mr Plokhy paints of the completefailure of the key decision-makers to get inside the minds of theircounterparts that is most telling.... With his masterly book, Mr Plokhy hassounded a warning bell., The story isextraordinary, and Plokhy is an accomplished narrator.... This account isprobably as authoritative a version of the Soviet side as we are likely to get., Paint[s] a clearer picture of the behind-the-scenes machinations, the motivations, the politics, and the errors in judgment that almost brought about a nuclear holocaust. Plokhy pulls it all together with sober yet accessible prose that reads like a suspenseful thriller. For anyone interested in the Cold War, this is an indispensable read., Superb.... animmense scholarly achievement, engrossing and terrifying, and surely one of themost important books ever written about the Cuban Missile Crisis and 20thcentury international relations., This important, absorbing work shows that the full story of the Cuban Missile Crisis must be told from its global perspective., A fresh examination of the historical milestone.... Plokhy keeps the pages turning, and he includes far more Soviet material than earlier scholars.... Far from the first account but superbly researched and uncomfortably timely.
Dewey Decimal
973.922
Synopsis
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy's Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground. In breathtaking detail, Plokhy vividly recounts the young JFK being played by the canny Khrushchev; the hotheaded Castro willing to defy the USSR and threatening to align himself with China; the Soviet troops on the ground clearing jungle foliage in the tropical heat, and desperately trying to conceal nuclear installations on Cuba, which were nonetheless easily spotted by U-2 spy planes; and the hair-raising near misses at sea that nearly caused a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine to fire its weapons. More often than not, the Americans and Soviets misread each other, operated under false information, and came perilously close to nuclear catastrophe. Despite these errors, nuclear war was ultimately avoided for one central reason: fear, and the realization that any escalation on either the Soviets' or the Americans' part would lead to mutual destruction. Drawing on a range of Soviet archival sources, including previously classified KGB documents, as well as White House tapes, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama and anxiety of those tense days, and provides a way for us to grapple with the problems posed in our present day., A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse.
LC Classification Number
E841.P55 2021
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