Drawing on previously unrevealed Politburo documents and Soviet intelligence materials, the authors of "One Hell of a Gamble" reassess the role of Nikita Khrushchev during Cold War confrontations with the U.S., offering new insights into the Cuban missile crisis and other events from the perspective[...]
No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the Soviet Union have long been sealed from public view: Of the most frightening episode of the Cold War[...]