Cuban Missile Crisis: In the Shadow of Nuclear War (America's Living History)

For thirteen days in 1962, two leaders, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, faced an unthinkable situation-nuclear war. The possible loss of life and the amount of destruction would be incalculable. Author R. Conrad Stein chronicles the stressful days of the Cuban missile crisis and how high-stakes diplomatic wrangling averted World War III.