Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali

“One Hell of a Gamble”

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. Photographs.

"A magnificent achievement. . . . Scholarly without being pedantic, full of revelations, and frightening."—Los Angeles Times