Khrushchev?s Cold War ? The Inside Story of an American Adversary

Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary\nFursenko, Aleksandr; Naftali, Timothy\n\nPublished by W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. First Edition and impression with full number string down to '1'. Bound in red and black cloth, tiled in gilt. Minor bumping to the spine ends, else clean and tight. Jacket unclipped with minor wear. Vg overall. Weighty at approx 1.5kg packed.\nNikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In Khrushchev's Cold War, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, authors of the Cuban missile crisis classic \""One Hell of a Gamble,\"" bring to life head-to-head confrontations between Khrushchev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. Drawing from their unrivaled access to Politburo and Soviet intelligence materials, they reveal for the first time three moments when Khrushchev's inner circle restrained him from plunging the superpowers into war. Combining new insights into the.