A review by charliemudd
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs

3.0

Audio book: Very well researched with a lot of good content, but a little chaotic. I understand the Cuban Missle Crisis was chaotic, but I lost track of some of the threads in this book. Probably would have been better as a read, and also if two of the discs weren't scratched and skipped. Dobbs concludes that both Kennedy and Kruschev were tyring to stop the war machine that they had both put in place, and both of them were scared of what they had started. The "eyeball to eyeball" story never happened, and Kruschev pretty much turned his ships around as soon as the quarantine was announced. Castro proved that he was emotional and crazy, as we all knew, but many of the stories that came from the crisis were untrue and hurt us by causing the hubris that was Vietnam.