by Max Hastings · Editorial Crítica · tapa dura · ISBN 9788491995333
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In his new book, Max Hastings focuses on the Cuban Missile Crisis, the thirteen days of October 1962 that kept the world on the brink of nuclear abyss. Hastings offers a new approach to this historical moment from the different points of view of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots, and British disarmers. Through interviews with visual witnesses, archival documents, diaries, and White House recordings, Hastings presents a portrait of the Cold War in Fidel Castro's Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev's USSR, and Kennedy's United States.
Beyond military history and confrontation, Hastings delves into the underlying causes that led to the conflict, from the situation of Cuba allied with the United States under Batista to Castro's regime of extreme hostility towards Americans, through the feeling of weakness of the Soviets before the Americans after the Second World War and their need for reaffirmation in the pulse of the Cold War. The Cuban crisis highlighted the nuclear risk, as well as the difficulty of making a good strategy in the face of misunderstanding the enemy.
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings is a British journalist and military historian who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard. He is also the author of thirty books, most significantly histories, which have won several major awards. Hastings currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion and contributes to The Times and The Sunday Times.
