Nuclear Folly av Serhii Plokhy

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<p><b>*Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History*<br><br>''An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . . replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual suspicion that brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of Armageddon in October 1962'' Martin Chilton, Independent<br><br>The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of <i>Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy</i>, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize</b><br><br>For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine and fallout; nuclear war between the two most-powerful nations on Earth.<br><br>In <i>Nuclear Folly</i>, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the riveting story of those weeks, tracing the tortuous decision-making and calculated brinkmanship of John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, a