Starred Review. Washington Post reporter Dobbs (Saboteurs) is a master at telling stories as they unfold and from a variety of perspectives. In this re-examination of the 1963 Bay of Pigs face-off between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., Dobbs combines visits to Cuba, discussions with Russian participants and fingertip command of archival and printed U.S. sources to describe a wild r...(展开全部)

October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. The Cuban missile crisis is at its height, and the world is drawing ever closer to nuclear apocalypse. As the opposing Cold War leaders, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, mobilize their forces to fight a nuclear war on land, sea and air, the world watches in terror. In Bobby Kennedy's words, 'There w...(展开全部)

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 〔美〕威尔·英格伦（Will Englund） 美国记者、作家。毕业于美国哈佛大学，是《华盛顿邮报》资深记者，多次以通讯记者的身份前往莫斯科调查，对俄罗斯追踪报道20年，并对各种话题、历史都有深入研究和报道。作品曾获普利策奖。 他通过对在美国国会图书馆、互联网档案馆、耶鲁大学图书馆、美国国家第二档案馆等机构和网站广泛查阅、搜集到的大量与本书主题相关的报刊、档案资料、私人书信、日记进行分析研究，在此基础上，撰写了这本书。 【译者简介】 孟驰 福建人，自幼年起即对外国文学酷爱至极，最大的喜好是闲暇时分坐在书房捧读莫泊桑、巴尔扎克、托尔斯泰、雨果等大师的著作，中学时又对英语专业深为痴迷。译著有《茶叶大盗》《迦太基必须毁灭》《古典世界的战争》《世界简史》等。

A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and its lessons for today. "History at its best." -Zbigniew Brzezinski "Gripping, well researched, and thought-provoking, with many lessons for today." -Henry Kissinger "Captures the drama [with] the 'You are there' storytelling skills of a journalist and the analytical skil...(展开全部)

Fast-paced and dramatic re-telling of the financial crisis that nearly bought the developed world to its knees. Hank Paulson was at the absolute epicentre of the recent economic storm, and his account of how he dealt with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression makes for absolutely fascinating reading. The book contains all the decisive moments in the economic ...(展开全部)

When Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was appointed in 2006 to become the nation's next Secretary of the Treasury, he knew that his move from Wall Street to Washington would be daunting and challenging. But Paulson had no idea that a year later, he would find himself at the very epicenter of the world's most cataclysmic financial crisis since the Great Depression....(展开全部)