High Noon in the Cold War Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Drawing on personal reminiscences, archival material, and new scholarship, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers a dramatic recreation of the Cuban Missile Crisis that analyzes the roles, objectives, and actions of John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the October 1962 showdown between the U.S. and Soviet Union. 60,000 first printing.