{"product_id":"9781400078912","title":"One Minute to Midnight","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet  Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles  in Cuba. In this\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, for the  first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U.S. naval  base at Guantánamo; the handling of Soviet nuclear warheads on Cuba; and the extraordinary  story of a U-2 spy plane that got lost over Russia at the peak of the crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten  like a thriller, \u003ci\u003eOne Minute to Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e is an exhaustively researched account of  what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called “the most dangerous moment in human history,”  and the definitive book on the Cuban missile crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Dobbs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45895306870996,"sku":"9781400078912","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b471ed85-895f-4c15-97c3-1204a1abf519.jpg?v=1732364135","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781400078912","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}