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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Aleksandr Fursenko, Timothy James Naftali Paperback, 420 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-393-31790-0 / 0393317900 ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31790-9 / 9780393317909 The Berlin Wall has been rubble for a decade and the memories of the cold war are growing dim. And yet no one is ever likely to forget the Cuban Missile crisis of October 1962, when the world stood on the brink of full-scale nuclear war as the Soviet Union and America locked horns off the coast |