Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis Fiction_Gift_Guide Approximately 14 inches in size

Approximately 14 inches in size

it was more than a means to a better life

presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia

Sicilians and Lombards

this artful indictment of small-town hypocrisy influenced Theodore Dreiser

Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis Fiction_Gift_Guide Approximately 14 inches in sizeFrom the Pulitzer Prize winning author of American Prometheus comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold Warhow such a crisis arose and why, at the very last possible moment, it never happened. Fresh and thrilling. A fascinating work of history that is very relevant to todays politics. Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of The Code Breaker Pulitzer