The Brink: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In thirteen harrowing days in October 1962, the world teetered on the edge of nuclear annihilation — The Brink chronicles the Cuban Missile Crisis with gripping immediacy, placing readers inside the tense standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union as President Kennedy and his advisors scrambled to avert catastrophe. David Detzer reconstructs the crisis from the ground up, tracking the discovery of Soviet ballistic missiles secretly installed in Cuba, the frantic back-channel negotiations, and the agonizing decisions that brought two superpowers to the very threshold of nuclear war. Detzer's narrative style is cinematic yet scrupulously researched, weaving together the perspectives of generals, diplomats, and heads of state to present a panoramic portrait of Cold War brinkmanship at its most dangerous. The work stands as a landmark in popular history writing, illuminating the broader themes of political miscalculation, military escalation, and the fragile architecture of deterrence that defined the nuclear age — leaving the reader to wonder just how close humanity truly came to the unthinkable.
Author: David Detzer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In thirteen harrowing days in October 1962, the world teetered on the edge of nuclear annihilation — The Brink chronicles the Cuban Missile Crisis with gripping immediacy, placing readers inside the tense standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union as President Kennedy and his advisors scrambled to avert catastrophe. David Detzer reconstructs the crisis from the ground up, tracking the discovery of Soviet ballistic missiles secretly installed in Cuba, the frantic back-channel negotiations, and the agonizing decisions that brought two superpowers to the very threshold of nuclear war. Detzer's narrative style is cinematic yet scrupulously researched, weaving together the perspectives of generals, diplomats, and heads of state to present a panoramic portrait of Cold War brinkmanship at its most dangerous. The work stands as a landmark in popular history writing, illuminating the broader themes of political miscalculation, military escalation, and the fragile architecture of deterrence that defined the nuclear age — leaving the reader to wonder just how close humanity truly came to the unthinkable.