Abyss
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Abyss
A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Telegraph
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From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings, the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis Daily Telegraph
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and the Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.
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Reviews for Abyss by Max Hastings highlight it as a compelling and gripping retelling of historical events, akin to the best fiction, with vivid detail and insightful re-assessment of the Cold War's most dangerous moment. Critics praise the book for its addictive narrative style, deep research, and incisive intelligence, noting its ability to elucidate the precarious brinkmanship of the era with chilling clarity.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780008365035
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 May 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: William Collins
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 36.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 430g
Pages: 576
About the Author
Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, best-sellers translated around the world. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.
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