About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400043583ISBN:1400043581
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN-13:9781400043583ISBN:1400043581
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2009-06-02
ISBN-13:9781400078912ISBN:1400078911
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400043583ISBN:1400043581
Description: New. 1400043581 From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Washington Post reporter Dobbs (Saboteurs) is a master at telling stories as they unfold and from a variety of perspectives. In this re-examination of the 1963 Bay of Pigs face-off between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., Dobbs combines visits to Cuba, discussions with Russian participants and fingertip command of archival and printed U.S. sources to describe a wild ride that--contrary to the myth of Kennedy's steel-nerved crisis management--was ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400043583ISBN:1400043581
Description: New in new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 426 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ARROW BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780099492450ISBN:0099492458
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 448 pages. October 27, 1962, a day dubbed black saturday in the kennedy white house. this book tells both the human and the political story of black saturday, taking the reader into the white house, the kremlin and along the entire cold war battlefront. 16 (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Date Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN-13:9781400043583ISBN:1400043581
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400043583ISBN:1400043581
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400043583ISBN:1400043581
Description: As New in As New dust jacket. 9781400043583. 2008 Knopf stated first edition partial cloth hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Book is unread. Tiny wrinkle at bottom spine of dust jacket. Protective mylar cover.; 1.73 x 9.37 x 5.98 Inches. read more
"Great book about an important 13 days in American history. There are many legitimate areas in which one can criticize JFK, but I am certainly glad that, for those 13 days anyway, he was president, and not any of the many folks around him. Also, Kruschev was, again at this moment anyway, a leader who worked hard to avoid world destruction. Finally, thankfully Castro had no more power than he did. It would have been better if he had much less, better yet none."
"Few people outside those who are in or have read this book probably realize how easily we could be living in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland. Even if you think you know, you should read this book to learn that no, you didn't really know. Frightening, all the more so for the pure veracity of the tale. Presented well, chronologically, which fits the situation well as there was rarely a moment that didn't have an impact on the final outcome.
A great read that manages, for the most part, to avoid bogging the reader down in minutiae or personae dramatis overload. For the most part. Not the moistest piece of nonfiction you'll ever read, but far from dry, and made up for by the terrifying plausibility of an unimaginable result that fortunately did not come to pass."
"I was only around 10 years old when the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. All these years I had no concrete idea how close we all were to annihilation, although my whole life I have been aware of (and many times fearful) of nuclear holocaust. This book brings together all the details, the personalities, and the main events of the crisis.
I made the mistake of trying to read it during my lunch breaks. It is way too detailed for that! It is much more comprehensible read a full chapter at a time."
"If you are at all interested in the history of the Cuban missile crisis, read this book. Shows many of the earlier histories such as "Thirteen Days" to be largely mythology rather than objective statement of fact. Detaled research of archives gives a much fuller, more realistic picture of the events. The reality of the situation was much, much scarier than I had ever imagined."
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