One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 artifact arguing their three-day “forlorn hope”

arguing their three-day “forlorn hope” delayed the Rebels long enough to allow the Army of the Potomac to arrive and defeat Lee at Gettysburg

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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 artifact arguing their three-day “forlorn hope”by Aleksandr Furenko and Timothy Naftali Based on classified Soviet archives, including the files of Nikita Khrushchev and the KGB, "One Hell of a Gamble" offers a riveting play by play history of the Cuban missile crisis from American and Soviet perspectives simultaneously. No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows;