Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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of Tennessee at Knoxville) celebrates Pyle’s “dense, descriptive style” and his unusual feel for the quotidian GI experience—a personal and human side to war left out of reporting on generals and their strategies.

Hastings is generous in describing his role in the Cuban revolution but also highlights his many failures as a national leader once independence had been gained. The result is a book to match the best things ever written on the subject in terms of immediacy and drama. A collection of his essays and short fiction about the immeasurable, the inconceivable, and incomprehensible. There was no clear reason why Cuba should not have been allowed openly to invite the USSR to place missiles in Cuba, just like Britain and Turkey agreed to placement on their territories of US weapons.In subtle and brilliant prose, in which nature connects us with the symbolic possibilities of literature, the abysses are both real and intimate. Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. With lucidity, innocence, suspense and the labyrinths of desire, she draws an unforgettable map of the heartrending road to freedom. In his long, distinguished career, Hastings has masterfully covered both world wars, the Korean War, and Vietnam. A plan was drawn up for marines to land at several north-coast locations, based on CIA estimates that there were 5,000 Soviet troops in Cuba.

Set in a coastal town in Colombia, this novel is populated by complex characters outlined with minimalist strokes of absolute precision, and offers a startling, profound portrait of frustrated desire that will stay with the reader for a long time to come. Other events take place which shake her out of it, and start to bring things to some semblance of normalcy but her mother’s depression never really goes away. Vanessa is getting weaker and weaker, unwilling to use her powers of seduction to kill someone as she must do if she doesn't want to die herself.He has won many prizes, for both his journalism and his books, the most recent of which are the bestsellers Vietnam, The Secret War, Catastrophe, and All Hell Let Loose. In “The Window”, a young British army officer on duty in France is trapped by a falling sash window in a deserted chateau, an accident which leads to visions of past violence during the French Revolution.