
October 27, 1962 was known as Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. With the Cuban missile crisis at its height, this was a day of nail-biting developments, when the hands of the metaphorical Doomsday Clock reached one minute to midnight and the world grew closer than ever before (or since) to nuclear apocalypse. On Black Saturday, the opposing Cold War leaders, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khr...
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Hutchinson; Airport / Ireland / South Africa / Australia / New Zealand ed edition (June 5, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0091921015
ISBN-13: 978-0091921019
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 9.1 inches
Amazon Rank: 10380435
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There have been several iterations of the "Missile Crisis" story. In the US, we started with accounts that were part history, part myth building, part hagiography - all driven by the Kennedy insiders. Schlesinger, Bobby Kennedy, and others gave us ...
bilized their forces to fight a nuclear war on land, sea and air. The watching world held its breath in terror. In Bobby Kennedy s words, There was a feeling that the noose was tightening on all of us, on Americans, on mankind, and that the bridges to escape were crumbling.' ichael Dobbs tells both the human and the political story of Black Saturday, taking the reader not just into the White House and the Kremlin but along the entire Cold War battlefront with the men who were preparing to fight. We see inside U-2s and nuclear submarines; the armies gathering in Florida and Cuba; American warships and Cuban anti-aircraft batteries; the CIA, the NSA and the KGB; Cold War radio stations and listening posts; the feverish conspiracies of Cuban exiles; Castro s headquarters; Khrus