THE author is a reporter on the Washington Post who for most of his career has been at the sharp end of reporting the collapse of Communism.
In this ambitious book he turns his attention back to October, 1962, to the period described as “the most dangerous moment in human history,” when John F Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev took the world to the edge of nuclear war over the Cuban missile crisis.
He outlines the background in the days leading up the moment when the two world powers stood “eyeball to eyeball” but half of this incredibly well researched and breathtaking book is given to a minute by minute account of the peak of the crisis on Black Saturday, October 27 – the day the world almost ended.
