Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history--the Cuban Missile Crisis--providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded.
In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century--the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis--America President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors.
Combining in-depth research with Hasting's well-honed insights, The Abyss is a human history that unfolds on a wide, colorful canvas. As the action moves back and forth from Moscow to Washington, DC, to Havana, Hastings seeks to explain, as much as to describe, the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and to recreate the tension and heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance. Reflecting on the outcome of these events, he reveals how the aftermath of this momentous crisis continues to reverberate today.
Powerful, and riveting, filled with compelling detail and told with narrative flair, The Abyss is history at its finest.
Max Hastings narra a Guerra do Vietnã com o poderoso benefício da própria memória. Primeiro a partir de lembranças do período entre 1967-68, quando, nos Estados Unidos, conversou com muitos personagens decisivos da guerra, entre eles o presidente Lyndon Johnson; depois, de suas coberturas in loco no Vietnã para diversos jornais e o canal BBC. Hastings é autor de 26 livros, a maioria sobre guerras e conflitos armados, como Catástrofe e Inferno, publicados pela Intrínseca. Foi editor de jornais como o Daily Telegraph e o Evening Standard e venceu diversos prêmios jornalísticos. Pai de dois filhos adultos, vive em West Berkshire, na Inglaterra, com a esposa.  | 
| ISBN | 9780062980175 | 
| Autor(a) | Hastings, Max | 
| Editora | Harper Perennial | 
| Ano de edição | 2023 | 
| Acabamento | Brochura | 
| Dimensões | 22,90 X 15,40 | 
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