One Minute to Midnight

For 13 tension-filled days in October 1962, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Author Michael Dobbs dispels many of the myths surrounding this event, uncovering new information about the Russian arsenal on Cuba, the “eyeball-to-eyeball” confrontation on the high seas, and a blundering U-2 pilot who flew into Russian airspace at the height of the crisis.