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"Reevaluates the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history, seeking to explain the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and recreate the heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance."--
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English
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The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world. His life and career mirror the Soviet experience: revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
In 1960, a group of Red Army officers are planning to have Khrushchev assassinated. At the same time a CIA officer linked to the planned Bay of Pigs invasion vows vengence after an ambush and disappears. The two plots converge at the 1961 summit in Vienna.
14) K blows top: a Cold War comic interlude starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's most unlikely tourist
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Recounts Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America against the backdrop of the Cold War and a capitalist America living under the shadow of the hydrogen bomb.
16) Thirteen days
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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Oct. 1962, for thirteen extraordinary days the world stood on the brink of destruction. Krushchev wouldn't back down, President Kennedy wouldn't give in. Inspired by the real-life events that took place in the Kennedy White House.
18) Old flames
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English
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In April 1956, at the height of the Cold War, Khrushchev and Bulganin, leaders of the Soviet Union, are in Britain on an official visit. Chief Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard is assigned to be Khrushchev's bodyguard and to spy on him. Soon after, a Royal Navy diver is found dead and mutilated beyond recognition in Portsmouth Harbor. Troy embarks on an investigation that takes him to the rotten heart of MI6, to the distant days of his childhood, and...
