One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 Section-Lincoln's Cabinet The realistic prose and visceral

The realistic prose and visceral descriptions of battle that Crane used marked the first shift away from uncritical patriotism in war literature

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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 Section-Lincoln's Cabinet The realistic prose and visceralby Aleksandr Furenko and Timothy Naftali Based on classified Soviet archives, including the files of Nikita Khrushchev and the KGB, "One Hell of a Gamble" offers a riveting play by play history of the Cuban missile crisis from American and Soviet perspectives simultaneously. No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows;