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Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
Putnam
May 2011
On Sale: May 10, 2011
608 pages
ISBN: 0399157298
EAN: 9780399157295
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Historical
A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written
account of one of the epic dramas of
the Cold War—and its lessons for today. In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called it “the most dangerous
place on earth.” He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year
later, but the Berlin crisis of 1961 was more decisive in
shaping the Cold War—and more perilous. For the first time
in history, American and Soviet fighting men and tanks stood
arrayed against one another, only yards apart. One mistake,
one overzealous
commander—and the trip wire would be sprung for a war that
would go nuclear in a heartbeat. On one side was a young,
untested U.S. president still reeling from the Bay of Pigs
disaster. On the other, a Soviet premier hemmed in by the
Chinese, East Germans, and hard-liners in his own
government. Neither really understood the other, both tried
cynically to manipulate
events. And so, week by week, the dangers grew. Based on a wealth of new documents and interviews, filled
with fresh—sometimes startling—insights, written with immediacy
and drama, Berlin 1961 is a masterly look at key events of
the twentieth century—with powerful applications to these
early years of the twenty-first.
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