Nuclear folly: a new history of the cuban missile crisis

The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY. For 13 days in October 1962 the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. This is a blow-by-blow account of how the USA and the Soviet Union got there and the many missteps that could have led to the end of the world as we know it.