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ESCAPE FROM OBLIVION: A Moscow Correspondent's Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis [Kindle Edition] Donald S. Connery (Author)
ESCAPE FROM OBLIVION: A Moscow Correspondent's Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
[Kindle Edition] Donald S. Connery (Author)
Publication Date: September 25, 2012
Book Description
ESCAPE FROM OBLIVION: A Moscow Correspondent’s Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis is unique among the many books on the singular event in human history that almost ended human history. As one of the most-traveled of all Cold War reporters, Donald S. Connery has produced an extraordinary, highly personal eyewitness account of the frightening thirteen days in late October 1962 that brought the world to the brink of a thermonuclear war.
He reveals that the citizens of the Soviet police state, who were kept in ignorance about the crisis, remained calm while many Americans were in panic. He tells how Russians, “Americans in disguise” as he saw them up close in 1961 and 1962, believed that they were drawing closer to the U.S.A. even as Khrushchev defied Kennedy by carrying out his secret shipments of missiles in Cuba. A recent visitor to the new Russia, the author shatters the myths about who started the crisis and who was the victor.
Donald S. Connery, an independent journalist and author of six books, is a World War II veteran and Harvard graduate who roamed the world for TIME and LIFE magazines during the heyday of their influence in the early Cold War years. He has since pioneered in exposing the magnitude of wrongful convictions in America’s criminal justice system.
ESCAPE FROM OBLIVION: A Moscow Correspondent's Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis [Kindle Edition] Donald S. Connery (Author)
ESCAPE FROM OBLIVION: A Moscow Correspondent's Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
[Kindle Edition] Donald S. Connery (Author)
Publication Date: September 25, 2012
Book Description
ESCAPE FROM OBLIVION: A Moscow Correspondent’s Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis is unique among the many books on the singular event in human history that almost ended human history. As one of the most-traveled of all Cold War reporters, Donald S. Connery has produced an extraordinary, highly personal eyewitness account of the frightening thirteen days in late October 1962 that brought the world to the brink of a thermonuclear war.
He reveals that the citizens of the Soviet police state, who were kept in ignorance about the crisis, remained calm while many Americans were in panic. He tells how Russians, “Americans in disguise” as he saw them up close in 1961 and 1962, believed that they were drawing closer to the U.S.A. even as Khrushchev defied Kennedy by carrying out his secret shipments of missiles in Cuba. A recent visitor to the new Russia, the author shatters the myths about who started the crisis and who was the victor.
Donald S. Connery, an independent journalist and author of six books, is a World War II veteran and Harvard graduate who roamed the world for TIME and LIFE magazines during the heyday of their influence in the early Cold War years. He has since pioneered in exposing the magnitude of wrongful convictions in America’s criminal justice system.